In this video, at www.wisbar.org/wl,WisLAP coordinator Linda Albert and Deb Smith, director of assigned counsel for the SPD, discuss the agency's involvement with the study, what it learned, and how it will help its staff.
Wisconsin Lawyer
Vol. 84, No. 12, December
2011
More from the authors The Toll of Trauma
The cumulative physical, emotional, and psychological effects
resulting from continual exposure to others' traumatic experience --
compassion fatigue -- can put lawyers at risk. In this video, Deb Smith,
SPD director of assigned counsel, and Linda Albert, State Bar WisLAP
coordinator, discuss a groundbreaking study of State Public Defender
attorneys. This study examines the impact of secondary trauma on lawyers
who are continually exposed to others' traumatic experiences.
You also can find this video at YouTube.com/StateBarofWI.
