Resiliency Workshop for Vicarious Trauma & Burnout

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Session Type: Lightning Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: N/A

Room: Yosemite B

Floor: Ballroom Level

Clinic work can be both empowering and exciting, but also at times depressing, draining, and hopeless. Our students (and we!) must grapple with oppressive legal systems, clients who experience overlapping challenges, and the structure of legal education itself. Cultivating resiliency in the face of vicarious trauma and burnout is an essential skill to keeping us in the work. This session will present a high-level look at literature on resiliency, secondary/vicarious trauma, and burnout in the lawyering context. We will then discuss how we see these issues arising for our clinical students – and ourselves - and turn to strategies for coping and building resilience.