Wellness for Law: Making Wellness Core Business provides strategies and insights for managing mental well-being in law students, academics and the legal profession.
This topical and highly relevant book covers the twin themes of mental well-being in legal education and in the legal profession. It comprises contributions from academics, legal practitioners and the judiciary. It includes papers that present ground-breaking empirical research into the area and contains personal insights from students and different levels of the profession, as well as strategies for supporting law students and young legal professionals. The topics discussed in the papers cover:
• the mental health of Australian tertiary students
• the lived experience of Australian law students and teachers
• the core business of supporting mental well-being in students
• transitioning to the profession: advice for young lawyers
• the lived experience of members of the profession
• the lived experience of the judiciary
The book was developed from presentations at the 9th Wellness for Law Forum, hosted by the University of Melbourne and Monash University in February 2019. It is important reading for all areas of legal academia and the legal profession.
• Offers insights and strategies for managing mental well-being
• Relevant to all areas of legal academia and the profession
• Topical coverage by experts in the field
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Part 1 — Making Wellness Core Business in Legal Education and the Profession
Making Wellness Core Business — Judith Marychurch & Adiva Sifris
Part 2 — The mental health of Australia’s tertiary students
Safeguarding the ‘mental wealth’ of Australian university — Vivienne Brown & Nicholas Fava
Part 3 — The lived experience of Australian law students
Wellness and Wellbeing at Monash University: The First Semester Law Experience — Daniel O’Loughlin, Adiva Sifris & Becky Batagol
Personal Insight: Pragmatic Concern for Law Student Wellbeing- Financial Security, Autonomous Learning and Compassionate Teaching — Ellen Roberts
Personal Insight: It’s Your Journey: Overcoming the Adversity of Law School — Christian Lane
Connecting student wellbeing and service design: Creating Community and Cultivating Future Skills — Sophie Tversky
Part 4 — The lived experience of Australian law teachers
Fit your own oxygen mask first: The Contemporary Neoliberal University and the well-being of legal academics — Colin James, Caroline Strevens, Rachael Field, Claire Wilson
Why bother if the students don’t? The impact of declining student attendance at lectures on law teacher wellbeing — Kate Offer, Murray Wesson, Fiona McGaughey, Natalie Skead & Liam Elphick
Part 5 — The core business of supporting students: lessons from the coalface
Partnership with students for a whole of school approach to wellbeing — Judith Marychurch
On Being a Legal Educator: Responsible Teaching for Law, Justice and Wellness — Claire Carroll & Rachel Spencer
A Missing Piece of the Puzzle? The Relationship between Empathy and Mental Health for Law Students — Becky Batagol, Adiva Sifris, Ben Spivak, Brett Williams & Natalia Antolak-Saper
Hopeful Perspectives: Incorporating hope theory in Australian law students’ academic experience — Claire Holland & Donnalee Taylor
From Alienation to Empowerment: How Legal Educators Can Support Student Well-being — Bill Swannie
Music for Life; for Lawyers and Law Students — Michael Appleby
Practising what you perceive: Time perspective for life harmony and finding flow — Desi Vlahos
Integrating wellbeing skills and practices into professional curriculum: Challenges and opportunities — Mark Seton
Part 6 — The Importance of Wellbeing in the Legal Profession
Wellness for Law Forum 2019 - Making Wellness Core Business Keynote Address — Anne Ferguson
Minds Count: Next Steps — Cindy Penrose
Lawyer Wellbeing in the (Robotic) Face of Technological Change — Felicity Bell, Justine Rogers & Michael Legg
Anxiety: It’s Not What We Think? — Florence Thum
Wellness and Going Bush — Pamela Taylor-Barnett & Liz Curran
Part 7 — Transitioning to the Profession — Advice for Young Lawyers
Personal Insight: The Later Lawyer’s Transition to the Legal Profession — John Stack
Personal Insight: The Subtle Art of Thriving in Law — Leah Serafim
Starting Legal Practice, but Avoiding a Nervous Breakdown — Simon Stretton
Personal Insight - Thriving in your career — Claire Humble
Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Benefit ‘New’ and Emerging Lawyers — Doris Bozin, Allison Ballard & Vicki de Prazer
Part 8 — The Lived Experience of the Profession
Ten years in review: the case for a relational focus in health and wellbeing counselling services provided to barristers — Bernadette Healy
Shifting the conversation: Collaborating with the profession to improve lawyer wellbeing — Fiona McLeay
Personal Insight: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Leanne Cain
Part 9 — The Lived Experience of the Judiciary
Forward Operating Base Parramatta: What really troubles judges on the front line — Joe Harman
Personal Insight: Judicial wellness: independence, isolation and collegiality — Clyde Croft
Judith Marychurch is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Teaching and Learning) at the Melbourne Law School. She specialises in corporate and evidence law, as well as the legal issues relating to forensic accounting.
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