Well-Being in the Legal Profession

The development of mental health issues is often attributable to a complex interplay of genetic, biological, personality and environmental factors. The Study distinguished between risk factors, also referred to as constraints, and protective factors, also referred to as resources. There can be risk and protective factors that come from your personal and family life, work environment, individual factors and society, and work factors can vary depending on the profession. Risk and protective factors from each of these different spheres of life can “influence the health of professionals directly, but also indirectly through the accumulation of constraints and resources” to which you are exposed. 

This focus of this course is only on the workplace and social factors in the legal profession that impact mental health.