Trauma-Informed Practice
Psychological First Aid and Institutional Wellbeing
For the Legal Profession: focuses on emotional resilience, distressing case material and institutional culture. Teaches practitioners and students how to handle high-stress client interactions, process vicarious trauma safely, and build peer-support structures within legal organisations.
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Course Modules
Module 1: Understanding Trauma in Legal Work
3 lessons
What trauma is, how it shows up in clients and why the law meets it every day.
Module 2: Psychological First Aid for Lawyers
3 lessons
Practical, safe responses to distressed clients and witnesses within the lawyer's role.
Module 3: Vicarious Trauma and Personal Resilience
3 lessons
How distressing material affects legal professionals and how to process it safely.
Module 4: Building Trauma-Informed Institutions
3 lessons
Culture, peer support and leadership that protect people across legal organisations.