Category: Intervention
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Susan Bryant, “Collaboration in Law Practice: A Satisfying and Productive Process for a Diverse Profession”
This article examines collaboration among lawyers and argues that lawyers need a new set of skills and perspectives to collaborate more effectively. Collaboration is a process that involves shared decision-making by fellow collaborators, which allows for the development of ideas, leading to collective knowledge. Participatory decision-making models, like collaboration, increase worker satisfaction by relieving the…
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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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Gerald Corey et al, Clinical Supervision in the Helping Professions
This chapter, entitled “Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Supervisor”, explores the importance of ensuring that supervisors incorporate diversity perspectives into their supervision through a multicultural supervisory practice. This chapter goes on to provide practical suggestions for incorporating multicultural strategies into supervision. Culture, as applicable to supervision, has been described as such: “By defining culture broadly, to…
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Susan L Brooks, “Using Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Build Effective Relationships with Students, Clients and Communities”
This article suggests that clinicians should adopt a therapeutic jurisprudence approach. There are several key principles integral to therapeutic jurisprudence that clinicians in legal clinics should utilize. These principles include: modelling (i.e., how communication impacts students and how supervisors’ interactions may lead students to mirror what they observed); boundaries and limit-setting; transference and counter-transference, the…
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Justine A Dunlap & Peter A Joy, “Reflection-in-Action: Designing New Clinical Teacher Training by Using Lessons Learned from New Clinicians”
This article examines training programs for new clinical faculty based on data collected and lessons learned through the authors experiences working with new clinical faculty. It provides a series of recommendation for clinical faculty in-house training programs. Clinical faculty should join professional organizations for clinical faculty, attend clinical conferences, and sign up for clinic listservs…
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Ann Shalleck, “Clinical Contexts: Theory and Practice in Law and Supervision”
This paper examines the decisions that shape supervision in order to highlight the assumptions embedded in the supervisory dialogue and the vision that emerges from the supervisory process. The supervisory vision is one in which the supervisor constantly identifies the aspects of the law, lawyering, and the legal system that are critical to understanding what…
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Wallace J Mlyniec, “Where to Begin – Training New Teachers in the Art of Clinical Pedagogy”
This article describes the clinical program at the Georgetown Law Centre and sets out a clinical training program for new supervisors. The program and the article suggest six fundamental beliefs, including: Notably, teaching as a clinical teacher or supervisor is exceptionally difficult as it requires an understanding of teaching techniques, students’ prior knowledge, attention to…
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David F Chavkin, “Am I My Client’s Lawyer: Role Definition and the Clinical Supervisor”
This article is a good example of an early American clinical legal educator’s approach to supervision. The author struggles with the degree to which students should assume autonomy for their work (versus the supervisor), ultimately arguing that students should assume significant autonomy in their work. Two aspects of student learning maximize student autonomy: (1) an…