Category: Stress
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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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Timothy Casey, “Reflections on Legal Education in the Aftermath of a Pandemic”
This article suggests that although some law school courses can be taught online, experiential courses and clinics are not fit for the online space given the specific learning outcomes and in-person benefits, particularly concerning well-being. Online clinics hindered the opportunities for students to benefit from their teachers as mentors, observational opportunities were limited, individual instruction…
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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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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…