We’re gathering together our most useful resources for lawyers working with traumatic material and traumatised clients.
Our one-page leaflet to find out more about training and share with colleagues.
We created this factsheet for the lawyers’ mental health charity LawCare on vicarious trauma, its effects and how to work with it.
Articles by Claiming Space
Peer Support: a crucial tool in the wellbeing armoury
An article for the Immigration Lawyers Practitioner Association marking World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2019
Carrying a heavy caseload: We wrote this article for Regulation Matters, the online magazine for CILEx Regulation, the regulatory body for Chartered Legal Executives.
First published in the October 2018 issue of Legal Action (from www.lag.org.uk), Carol Storer reports on the plenary session at the Legal Aid Practitioners Group annual conference on ‘Stress and Vicarious Trauma’.
“It’s time to shift our thinking around stress and vicarious trauma in our workplace.”
Claiming Space co-director Rachel Francis spoke at the plenary session along with other experts in the field.
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