Chapter 17
On Becoming (and Remaining) a Family Law Professional
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news/list_of_best_jobs_for_introverts_r anks_lawyer_sixth
3. Your quiet chuckle at the culturally endorsed oxymoron (“Lawyers don’t
have morals!”) supports the point entirely. Although it’s just a joke, it
speaks to how we see attorneys and bears on understanding who enters
law school. Only 19% of the public expresses confidence in lawyers.
“Americans say that lawyers are greedy, manipulative, and corrupt”
(American Bar Association, 2002b, p. 4). By contrast, Mills (2009) reports
that 36% of survey respondents view the profession of psychology very
favorably and an additional 46% report viewing it favorably.
4. Noting that Daicoff subsequently suggests that “ego strength” moderates
rigid rule compliance.
5. Or perhaps there’s no irony here. Although applicants to graduate study
in psychology most frequently relate a wish to help others as motivating
their career choice, privately many simply wish to escape from one side
of the couch or the inkblot to the other. Norcross and Guy (2007, p. 8)
refer to this as the “fantasy that psychotherapists’ clinical skills would
inoculate us from the inevitable stressors of living.”
6. Daicoff uses “Preventive Law” to refer to “procedural justice, therapeutic
jurisprudence, therapeutically oriented preventive law, problem-solving
courts, restorative justice, collaborative law, transformative mediation,
holistic lawyering, and creative problem solving” (204, p. 170).
7. True, much of contemporary psychotherapy is very cognitive and behav-
ioral. It may be that many of the mental health professionals who gravitate
toward this work are simply finding their niche. Still, the only element
of any psychotherapy that has consistently been demonstrated to be effec-
tive is the quality of the relationship with the provider.
8. “Working in the domestic arena requires the development of ‘thick skin’
in practitioners in response to criticism as well as formal complaints”
(Kirkland & Kirkland, 2006, p. 32).
9. See Dubin and Ning (2008) for relevant risk-management strategies.
10. The media abounds with relevant drama; see http://socialworknc.blogs
pot.com/2008/02/wake-county-social-worker-assaulted.html or http://
www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200606-12-judge_x.htm
as
two
examples.
11. Cohen and Vesper (2001) recommend that this experience be recognized
in the
DSM
as “Forensic Stress Disorder.”
12. A 2002a survey conducted by the American Bar Association found that
86% of judges never use the Judicial Division Web site, intended to be one
of the judiciary’s greatest means of peer consultation and mutual support.
13. “[T]herapist self-care is essential when working with patients who suffer
from PTSD because this work can be functionally disruptive and psycho-
logically destabilizing for the mental health professionals” (Farrar, 2002).
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