Slides from workshop with Dr Georgina Clifford - 05.07.22.pdf
Further Recommended Resources for Wellbeing and Vicarious Trauma in the Legal Profession
A copy of Vicarious Trauma in the legal profession is available in the CWJ office.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
The Advocate’s Gateway
Free access to practical, evidence-based guidance on vulnerable witnesses and defendants: www.theadvocatesgateway.org
The Headington Institute
Not-for Profit team of psychologists in the USA that provides resources for frontline staff; www.headington-institute.org/resources/
Race Reflections
Offer, among other resources, training on racial trauma: www.racereflections.co.uk
Claiming Space
Facilitated peer support, bespoke training and consultancy
Family Law in Practice Faculty (‘FLIP Faculty’)
FLIP Faculty run a diploma course to train family law supervisors to provide one-to-one support for the sector.
Freedom from Torture
Training for immigration practitioners working with torture survivors.
https://www.freesomfromtorture.org/help-for-survivors/training-for-organisations
Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)
https://ilpa.org.uk/members-area/working-groups/well-being-new/well-being-resource-hub/
(ILPA also co-run the training with Freedom from Torture)
LawCare
The mental health charity for legal profession in the UK and Ireland. The also have a podcast called The Legal Mind.
Helpline: 0800 279 6888
Notes from the Law Care Workshop on ‘Slowing the Burn-Out’ - April 2022
Slides from the LawCare Workshop on ‘Slowing the Burn-Out’ - April 2022
Further info from the LawCare Workshop on ‘Slowing the Burn-Out’ - April 2022
Law Society of Scotland
Resources and guidance on trauma-informed practice
https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/cpd-training/online-cpd/trauma-informed-training/
Practical Meditation
Mindfulness and home and work
https://www.gillianhiggins.co.uk
Professional Quality of Life (proQOL)
Intended for any helper - health care professionals, social service workers, teachers, attorneys, emergency response, etc. Understanding the positive and negative aspects of helping those who experience trauma and suffering can improve your ability to help them and your ability to keep your own balance.
Wellbeing at the Bar
Resources and an Associate Programme for members of all self-employed barristers with a practicing certificate as well as member of the Institute of Barristers’ Clerks and the Legal Practice Managers’ Association
https://www.wellbeingatthebar.org.uk
Meditation and mindlfulness
Headspace – guided meditations, articles, and videos - https://www.headspace.com/
Calm – guided meditations, music, stretching exercises to help improve sleep quality - https://www.calm.com/
Insight Timer – variety of guided mediations with ability to track progress - https://insighttimer.com/
Be Mindful – a digital, clinically proven course of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy -https://www.bemindfulonline.com/
Anxiety UK - A great website to help you understand anxiety and find out more about breathing techniques -www.anxietyuk.org.uk
BOOKS
Trauma :
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery, Pandora 1992
Staci K Haines, The Politics of Trauma, North Atlantic Books, 2019
Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma, Penguin, 2015
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands, Central Recovery Press, 2017
Stephen Regel and Stephen Joseph, Post-traumatic Stress, Oxford University Press, 2017
Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue:
Francoise Mathieu, The Compassion Fatigue Workbook, Routledge, 2012
Practical tools :
David A Treleaven, Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, WW Norton & Company, 2018
David Emerson and Elizabeth Hopper PhD, Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga, North Atlantic Books, 2011
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones, Shambala Publications Inc. 2016
Mental health :
Lisa Appignanesi, Mad, Bad and Sad; A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present, Virago, 2008.
Nathan Filer, This Book will Change Your Mind about Mental Health, Faber & Faber 2019
Suman Fernando, Mental Health, Race and Culture, Red Globe Press, 2010
Articles
G Maguire and M K Byrne (2017), The law is not as blind as it seem; relative rates of vicarious trauma among lawyers and mental health professionals’, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 24(2), 233-243, https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2016.1220037.
Marie-Eve Leclerc, Jo-Anne Wemmers and Alain Brunet (2020), “The unseen cost of justice: post-traumatic stress symptoms in Canadian lawyers’, Psychology, Crime and Law, 26:1, 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2019.1611830
Line Ronning, Jocelyn Blumberg and Jesper Dammeyer (2020), ‘Vicarious traumatisation in lawyers working with traumatised asylum seekers: a pilot study’, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2020.1742238
PL Vrklevski and J Franklin (2008), ‘Vicarious trauma: The impact on solicitors of exposure to traumatic material’, Traumatology, 14(1), 106-118, https://doi.org/10.1177/1534765607309961