Category: Self-Disclosure

Kathleen A Sullivan, “Self-Disclosure, Separation, and Students: Intimacy in the Clinical Relationship”

May 18, 2024

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Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Diversity, Format – Article, Gender, Intimacy in Supervision, Self-Disclosure, Trust

This article describes the author’s discomfort in sharing personal details about her life with clinic students. The author describes how relationships between supervisors and clinical students can be intimate and the extent to which intimacy is generally a feature of clinical teaching relationships. This relationship is one of the greatest challenges in clinical legal education.…