Tag: diagnostic skill

Susan L Brooks, “Using Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Build Effective Relationships with Students, Clients and Communities”

May 19, 2024

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Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Assessment, Boundaries, Clinical Legal Education – United States, Empathy, Format – Article, Intervention, Pedagogy – Modelling, Reflective Practice

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…