Educating for well-being in law : positive professional identities and practice / edited by Caroline Strevens and Rachael Field.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strevens, Caroline, editor.

Field, Rachael, editor.

Series:

Emerging legal education.

Emerging legal education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law. The chapters include innovative and tested research methodologies and strategies for educating for well-being. Asking and answering the question as to whether law is special in terms of producing psychological distress in law students, law teachers and the profession, and bringing together common and opposing perspectives, this book also seeks to highlight excellent practice in promoting a positive professional identity at law school and beyond resulting in an original contribution to knowledge, and new discourses of analysis.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 The ethics of well-being: Psychological health as the vanguard for sociological change

Introduction

In defence of methodology

Resilience is about meaning

Achievements of the well-being movement in legal education and practice

Change from the bottom up

Conclusion

2 Self-care as a professional virtue for lawyers

What is self-care?

Understanding the legal profession and its stressors

The stressor of the power of the client

Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) resilience and well-being survey 2017/2018

The stressor of changes in public opinion about the profession

The stressor of technology

3 Values: The flip side of the well-being coin

Values enactment and well-being

Which values?

Values, well-being and professionalism

Values education and well-being

Law school values and well-being in a hypercompetitive world

Ethics and well-being in the workplace: Ethical climate

Ethics and well-being in the workplace: Hypercompetition

4 Well-being and a positive professional identity in the legal profession: A snapshot of the UK Bar

Positive professional identities for lawyers

Survey of UK barristers' perceptions of professional identity and well-being

Survey methodology

Survey results

Discussion

Future research

5 Determined to be professional, ethical and well

Well-being in legal education

Self-determination theory

Research context

Initial research results

Methodology

Survey participants

Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21)

Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)

Basic Psychological Needs Scale (BPNS)

Valuing Questionnaire (VQ).

Results

Hypothesis 1 - Psychological distress

Hypothesis 2 - Subjective well-being

Hypothesis 3 - Basic psychological needs

Hypothesis 4 - Values progress and obstruction

Hypothesis 5 - Basic psychological needs and distress/subjective well-being

Hypothesis 6 - Basic psychological needs, valuing and distress

Values

Impact of results

6 The information gap: A comparative study of the paradigms shaping perceptions of career success for law undergraduates and professional legal training students in Australia and the latent implications of non-professional legal career opportunities for law graduates in England

The information gap and well-being

Bourdieu's tools

Method

Data analysis and themes

Dominance

Grades, very long hours, value of training contracts

Shock, awe and anxiety

Toxicity, atrocity and acceptance

Alterity and the next drop

'Quality' and self-reproduction

Conclusions

7 Widening the approach to ethics teaching and positively affecting the ethical professional identity of trainee solicitors in Ireland

Intervention overview

Trainees' reflections

Appreciative inquiry

Provide 'safe space' for discourse and reflection

Making room for uncomfortable conversations

Small group discussion with exemplars

8 Connectivity, socialisation and identity formation: Exploring mental well-being in online distance learning law students

Online distance learning and law students

The role of socialisation and identity formation

Socialisation and identity formation at a distance

A unique balance?

9 Which hat shall I wear today? Exploring the professional and ethical implications of law clinic supervision

Pedagogy in clinic.

Personalising learning

Autonomy support

Mentoring

Role modelling

Clinic and well-being

Well-being awareness in the UK and Australia

Cause and effect: Well-being and the role of traditional legal education models

10 Clinical legal education and the hidden curriculum in the neoliberal university in England and Wales

Background

The gaps

Clinical legal education (CLE)

The hidden curriculum and well-being

Emotions: Emotional intelligence

Empathy

Cognition/understanding

Teaching developments

11 Resilience, positive motivation and professional identity: The experience of law clinic students working with real clients

The three clinical options on the BPTC

FRU (employment) option

FRU (social security) option

Domestic violence option

The research program

Working with clients

Working with opponents

Working with judges

Resilience

Interventions

Developing resilience

12 Meditation in legal education: The value added toward the well-being of law students

Defining meditation

The use of meditation in law schools

Development of student resilience

The broader context of responsibility for student well-being

Future research on the efficacy of meditation

13 Identity, well-being and law students

Well-being and identity

Student interview findings

Future lawyer identity

Academic achievement identity

Implications

Recommendations and conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-10439-X

1-351-10440-3

1-351-10438-1

9781351104401

OCLC:

1110009403