A Lawyer’s Guide to Wellbeing and Managing Stress

图书信息

作者	Angus Lyon
出版社	Ark Group
ISBN	9781783582358
出版时间	2016-02-22
字数	75.0万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,励志自助,心灵

读书简介

Stress is an inevitable part of being lawyer and it can even be a positive force – it can help you push through long hours or meet tough targets. However, when stress becomes excessive, it can be damaging to individuals and to firms, leading to mental and physical sickness, lack of morale or a desire to take on additional responsibility, and worse. The problem is widespread. According to a Law Society survey, 95% of lawyers have some negative stress in their jobs, and 17% say that this is extreme. Lawyers feel overloaded with work, unappreciated, isolated, and unsupported; many complain of unattainable targets, poor pay, and long hours. And while many firms say they have programmes in place that are geared towards improving the wellbeing of staff, 66% of lawyers say they would be concerned about reporting feelings of stress to their employer because of the stigma involved. Nobody wishes to be seen as a weak link in the chain of a professional practice. A solution won’t be found overnight. This book is designed to encourage lawyers and firms to think more about the question of stress, how to recognise it in others and themselves, and how to take action before it becomes excessive. It is written for lawyers everywhere – regardless of location or career level.

目录

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Executive summary

About the author

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Introduction

Wellbeing in the legal profession

LawCare

Who should read this book?

How is this book structured?

Part 1: So what?

Chapter 1: Stress and mental illness – A wicked legal problem?

The statistics

Wicked legal problems

Stigma

Stress has had a bad press

Can stress be healthy?

Adjusting your frame of mind

Chapter 2: Prehab

Prehab contexts

Archetypes

Rehab for VIPs

Reversing the therapy

Part 2: Me

Case study 1: Andrew – Internalising problems

Chapter 3: Brains and bodies

Low and high roads to fear

The brain’s survival mode

The ‘high road’ to clearer thinking

Chapter 4: Resilience

Resilience theory

Resilience markers

A turning point

Chapter 5: Practical mentalizing (1) – Mindfulness

Mentalizing

Mindfulness

Part 3: You

Case study 2: Beth – Inter-personal causes of stress

Chapter 6: Practical mentalizing (2) – Mind-mindedness

Thinking feelings and feeling thinkings

Emotional intelligence

Mindblindness and mind-mindedness

Berne’s ‘parent-adult-child’ theory

GIVE – Achieving assertiveness

Chapter 7: Team working and working teams

Some basic assumptions

Social intelligence

Part 4: Do

Case study 3: Chris – Environmental stress

Chapter 8: Stuff happens

Vicarious trauma

The effects of change

Chapter 9: Looking after ourselves

Five Ways to Wellbeing

Emotional literacy

Coping

Press ‘pause’

Sleep

Kanban

Chapter 10: Working well with others

Reading the changes

Breaking the ice

Dealing with difficult people

Press ‘pause’ again

Thinking hats

Basic assumptions

Epilogue: What now?

Heuristics

Managing change

What is to be done?

Recommended further reading

Glossary

Advice and support