Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Children’s Rights Litigation
Publication Date
2016
Volume
18
First Page
7
Abstract
(Excerpt)
Most of us are familiar with the stereotype of the burned out lawyer who drags herself to work in the morning, makes cynical comments throughout the day, no longer provides her best service to her clients, and goes home bored and uninspired. You may wonder why someone so uncaring ever became a child advocate in the first place, or how she lost her spark. And you know this could never happen to you. Right?
Wrong, according to a panel of experts convened by the ABA Section of Litigation’s Children’s Rights Litigation Committee in a teleconference examining the phenomenon recently termed “compassion fatigue.” The teleconference, “Addressing Compassion Fatigue: An Ethical Mandate,” was moderated by Trenny Stovall, Esq., director of the DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center in Decatur, Georgia, and featured:
• Alexandra Dolan, MSS, LSW, from the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia;
• Josh Spitalnick, PhD, ABPP, an adjunct assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University in Atlanta;
• Françoise Mathieu, M.Ed., CCC., the coexecutive director of TEND in Ontario; and
• Danielle Lynch, Esq., the supervising attorney in the DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center in Decatur.
This article provides a brief overview of the teleconference as well as the materials.
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