Pamela Starr (www.starrparalegals.com) sent me a link to an article in www.dailyreportonline.com The article addressed the job burnout and secondary traumatic stress affecting immigration judges.
This is the kind of thing that I pay attention to - the traumatic effects of professional life. On a large and small scale this happens to folks all the time. Lawyers, physicians, etc. The public thinks that you have it made. But there are these internal traumas and stressors that make life very difficult. So that hard as*ed lawyers tell me the stories about how they shut the door and cry after listening to painful stories. That's not the image that the public has of the law. Maybe that doesn't need to be the reality that the public knows. But it has to be one that lawyers can talk about somewhere, with someone.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Burnout plagues immigration judges
New study says difficulty of handling asylum cases pushes judges to the edge and may affect their rulings
Immigration judges, who day in and day out listen to horrific personal stories of asylum seekers, suffer from significant job burnout and secondary traumatic stress, which may affect their rulings, according to a recent study.
After analyzing data from 96 immigration judges who participated in the study, researchers from the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at th....
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