Mental health in the workplace
- Being Well in the Law: A Guide for LawyersLaw Society of New South Wales and Australian National University, 2016
- Inspiring ChangeBy Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou
December 2015 89 (12) LIJ 48
"Creating a healthy work environment is key to sustainable lawyering and the mental wellbeing of the profession." - Mental Health and the Legal Profession: A Preventative Strategy: Final Report (September 2014)The LIV’s Mental Health report, launched on 11 September 2014, calls for implementation of health and wellbeing programs that are proactive in their approach to wellbeing and preventative in their focus on mental health.
The report recommends a Victorian legal community health and wellbeing strategy. - The 'Moral Panic' over Psychological Wellbeing in the Legal Professionby Christine Parker
2015, 37(3) Law Society Journal 1103
Mental health and law students
- Courting the Blues: Attitudes towards Depression in Australian Law Students and Lawyers (2009)Brain & Mind Research Institute: University of Sydney
Conducted in conjunction with the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation.
"This report sets out the results of research on depression and understanding of the issues of mental illness amongst law students and practicing lawyers." - Dangerous Cult: Response to the Effect of the Market on Legal Education, A Special Issue: The Past, Present and Future of Critical Legal Education in AustraliaPaula Baron
(2013) 23 Legal Education Review 273, 276-284.
Part II - Neoliberalism and individual well-being - Does an Improved Experience of Law School Protect Students against Depression, Anxiety and Stress? An Empirical Study of wellbeing and the law school experience of LLB and JD studentsWendy Larcombe, Letty Tumbaga, Jan Malkin, Pip Nicholson and Orania Tokatlidis,
(2013) 35(2) Sydney Law Review 407.
A Melbourne Law School study. - Educating for Well-Being in Law: Positive Professional Identities and PracticeCaroline Strevens and Rachael Field (eds), Routledge, 2019
- Empathy and Mental HealthBy Adiva Sifris, Brett Williams and Vicky Kordouli
September 2015 89 (9) LIJ 38
"Preliminary results of a recent Monash University study indicate a possible link between low empathy levels and negative mental health." - Health and Wellbeing in the First Year: The Law School Experienceby Natalia Antolak-Saper, Lloyd England and Anthony Lester
(2011) 36(1) Alternative Law Journal 47 - The Mindful Law School: An Integrative Approach to Transforming Legal EducationScott L. Rogers
(2012) 28(4) Touro Law Review 1189 - Promoting Law Student and Lawyer Well-Being in Australia and BeyondRachael Field, James Duffy & Colin James (eds), Routledge, 2016
- Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Law Students: How Student Behaviours Affect Student Wellbeingby Natalie Skead and Shane L Rogers
(2014) 40 (2) Monash University Law Review 564. - Suffering in Silence: The Survey of Law Student Well-Being and the Reluctance of Law Students to Seek Help for Substance Use and Mental Health ConcernsJerome M. Organ, David B. Jaffe & Katherine M. Bender (2016) 66 Journal of Legal Education, 1, 116–56.
- Teaching Independent Learning Skills in the First Year: A Positive Psychology Strategy for Promoting Law Student Well-beingby Rachael Field, James Duffy andAnna Huggins
(2015) 8(2) Journal of Learning Design - Teaching Resilience and Self-Management Skills: Fostering Student Psychological Wellbeing for Future Employabilityby Rachael M Field
in Joy Higgs, Will Letts and Geoffrey Crisp (eds) Education for Employability (Brill, 2019) vol 2, 237
Guidelines
- Promoting Law Student Well-Being Good Practice Guidelines for Law Schools (CALD)"This document seeks to provide Good Practice Guidelines for Australian Law Schools for promoting law student wellbeing."
- TJMF Psychological Wellbeing: Best Practice Guidelines for the Legal Profession"The Guidelines promote psychologically healthy legal workplaces. The aim of the Guidelines is to assist legal organisations to create workplaces that fulfil each of the Psychosocial Factors, identified by extensive research as critical to psychological health."
Mindfulness resources
MoodPrism - a team from Monash University has developed a new smartphone app to track users’ moods over time and support their mental health and well-being. The app is now available on both Android and Apple platforms.
Smiling Mind is a free iPhone and web app. It includes a number of recorded mindfulness meditations. Monash University was involved in its development.