Section of Litigation Roundtable REGISTRATION

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Addressing Compassion Fatigue: An Ethical Mandate

Presented by the Children's Rights Litigation Committee

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern

Working with clients in trauma can impact lawyers who represent children in the child welfare system, both personally and professionally. Prolonged or repeated exposure to the abuse and neglect suffered by child victims can result in an acute form of burnout called compassion fatigue. However, child lawyers, unlike other helping professionals, rarely have language for this loss of capacity nor support systems in place to combat it. Large caseloads, inadequate resources and systems that sometimes re-victimize instead of rehabilitate, leave practitioners feeling ineffective, incompetent and lacking compassion. These conditions compromise the child lawyer’s ethical duty to provide competent representation. Speakers will focus on preventative and responsive strategies for solo practitioners, agency lawyers and leaders who manage child lawyers, as well as the ethical implications of compassion fatigue on child representation.

Speakers:

Trenny Stovall, Esq., DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center, Decatur, GA (moderator)

Alexandra Dolan, MSS, LSW, Support Center for Child Advocates, Philadelphia, PA

Josh Spitalnick, PhD, ABPP, Independent Practice & Adjunct Asst. Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA

Françoise Mathieu, M.Ed., CCC., Co-Executive Director, TEND, Kingston, Ontario, Cananda

Danielle Lynch, Esq., Supervising Attorney. DeKalb Child Advocacy Center, Decatur, GA

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