Description
Trauma-Informed Lawyering: Recognize the Role Trauma Plays in the Lawyer-Client Relationship
Available as a live webinar only
This presentation will discuss elements of the survivor-empowerment model and a trauma-informed legal practice, including information about the neurobiology of trauma and counter-intuitive victim behaviors, as well as intersectional lawyering and centering a client as a whole person. The presentation will also include discussion of vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience and will provide tools for attorneys to employ to make trauma-informed lawyering sustainable.
After this program, attendees will be able to:
Understand the neurobiology of trauma and the ways that it may play out in attorney-client relationship and/or other elements of representation.
Identify specific elements of a trauma-informed practice and empower their clients through representation.
Develop strategies to prevent, as well as signs to identify, vicarious trauma, and tools to "flip the script" to also identify and consider vicarious resiliency.
Online registration for this program will close on Wednesday, September 6th, at noon. Please call the RI Bar CLE Department at (401) 421-5740 to register after this date.
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