TRAUMA & BURNOUT

SC Bar Articles

• SC Lawyer article by Mike Ethridge: The Billable Hour and the Mockingbird

• SC Lawyer essay by Thomas Gagne: The Art of Work in the Age of Anxiety

Other Bar Association Journals

• Wisconsin Lawyer: The Toll of Trauma

• ABA: Compassion Fatigue

• Michigan Bar Journal: Lawyers and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 

Scholarly Articles

• Journal of Legal Education: Institutional Denial about the Dark Side of Law School, and Fresh Empirical Guidance for Constructively Breaking the Silence

• The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: Secondary Traumatic Stress in Attorneys and Their Administrative Support Staff Working With Trauma-Exposed Clients

• Journal of Occupational Behavior: Correlates of Burnout Among Public Service Lawyers

• Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Self-Reported Stress and Reproductive Health of Female Lawyers

Other Practical Resources

• American Psychological Association: How to Cope When a Loved one has a Serious Mental Illness 

• Attorney at Work: Knockout Burnout! 

• American Academy of Family Physicians: Overcoming Compassion Fatigue

• Ready.Gov: Coping with Disaster

• Delaware Lawyer Assistance Program: IN RE: When You Are Affected By Your Cases

• Office for Victims of Crime: Vicarious Trauma Toolkit