Category: Burnout
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Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next)
This book examines mutual aid, a model of collective support and collaboration to meet individual and group needs, usually stemming from recognition that systems in a capitalist society will not and has not met people’s needs. There are three key bedrocks of mutual aid: mutual aid projects work to meet survival needs and build shared…
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Tom Cox, George Kuk & Michael Leiter, “Burnout, Health, Work Stress and Organizational Healthiness”
This chapter explores burnout and work stress. Burnout is “an emotionally depleted state experiences by people in the helping professions” (178). Burnout is highly rooted in social context and determination. On the other hand, work stress focuses on the “interaction between the person and the environment”(179). Work stress exists in relation to the processes that…
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Sarah Katz & Deeya Haldar, “The Pedagogy of Trauma-Informed Lawyering”
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This article discusses the pedagogy of teaching law students to recognize and understand trauma and the effect of vicarious trauma on law students who work with clients who have experienced serious trauma. This article seeks to provide tools for teaching trauma-informed practice in all law school clinic settings. Vicarious trauma, or compassion fatigue, is a…
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Richard Ingram, “Emotionally Sensitive Supervision”
This chapter explores emotion within supervision, and consider how the best supervision elucidate the opportunities, challenges, and contributions of the emotional content of practice. Emotionally sensitive supervision requires willingness within the supervisory relationship to engage in complex and uncertain conversations about practice in a manner that requires a degree of emotional exposure. Simulating emotionally sensitive…
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Morgan D Stosic et al, “Empathy, Friend or Foe? Untangling the Relationship between Empathy and Burnout in Helping Professions”
This article examines the relationship between empathy and burnout by exploring empathy across various samples of helping professions which include practicing clinicians, medical students, and teaching assistants. Empathy can be viewed through a cognitive lens and an affective lens. The former includes perception and understand of another person’s emotional state. These cognitive aspects of empathy…
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Sarah Buhler, Sarah Marsden & Gemma Smyth, Clinical Law: Practice, Theory, and Social Justice Advocacy
This book addresses the many different features of practice in clinical contexts and helps students reflect critically on their experiences. Students learn from many sources including clients, supervisors, communities, and classrooms in clinical programs. Supervisors are employed by legal clinics, usually lawyers, under whose license student’s practice. Supervisors can provide students with connections between theory,…
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Meribah Rose & Chris Maylea, “The Case for Implementing Legal Clinical Supervision within Legal Practice, and Recommendations for Best Practices”
his article aimed to explore the potential benefits of incorporating clinical-style supervision into the legal profession more broadly. The authors utilized a narrative literature review which identified, reviewed, and summarized the existing literature on clinical supervision within the legal profession. Results indicated that there are multiple benefits associated with clinical-style supervision, including the reduction of…