Category: Race
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David F Chavkin, “Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Student Collaboration in Clinical Programs”
This article explores student collaboration in representing clients in clinical courses. It discusses both the benefits and disadvantages of putting students in teams. This article includes a literature review on collaboration and teamwork, as well as interviews with clinicians and students. The author provides recommendations to enhance collaboration in clinical programs. In this model, students…
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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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Mary Lynch, “Importance of Experiential Learning for Development of Essential Skills in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Effectiveness”
This article examines the importance of cross-cultural misunderstandings within the lawyer-client relationship, a relationship which requires trust. Intercultural effectiveness is critical for law students to learn because of the significant consequences that flow from cross-cultural misunderstandings in relationships within law practice. It may result in interference with rapport, problem-solving, and peacemaking. Cross-cultural misunderstandings may unintentionally…
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Mary Lee Nelson et al, “A Feminist Multicultural Perspective on Supervision”
This article discusses how gender and race interact with each other within the context of supervision. The authors suggest that in order to be open to multicultural supervision and the perspectives therein, supervisors must have the courage to be anxious, grapple with the uncertainty with respect to the silence that occurs in relation to feminism…
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Bill Ong Hing, “Raising Personal Identification Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Physical Disability, and Age in Lawyering Courses”
This paper describes how personal identification issues are raised in three different lawyering classes, one of which is an immigration clinic, and how issues of identity difference can be raised more effectively. In this immigration clinic course, students meet weekly in a group and with supervising attorneys to discuss their work. The group meeting consists…