Mental Health Awareness for Lawyers
Mental Health Awareness Course for Lawyers
Legal Beagle Online Training would like to introduce to you our online CPD training course for CPD credits entitled Mental Health Awareness for Lawyers. This course is designed to bring more awareness around mental health in the legal profession. Depression and Anxiety are huge problems in the legal industry, and at Legal Beagle, we seek to bring awareness of the problem and aim to be part of the solution.
This course will help you understand the following:
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What is mental health
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Why mental health matters in the Legal profession
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What poor mental health looks like
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Understanding what triggers poor mental health
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How to enhance your wellbeing despite the stress around you
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How to support others suffering from poor mental health
We will look at some statistics regarding mental health in legal professionals’ day to day work. We’ll be further explore symptoms of mental health issues and also how you can recognize these in others. From there, we will learn about ways to enhance your wellbeing and mental health despite stress and pressures you may be feeling at work, and also how you are able to support others around you.
Esslin Terrighena – Speaker at Legal Beagle
Dr. Esslin Terrighena has worked in the mental health field for over 10 years, and will be presenting this course. She holds a B.Sc. Hons. in Psychology from the UK, Masters of Counselling from Australia, and Ph.D. in Affective Neuropsychology from Hong Kong.
In psychotherapy, Dr. Terrighena specializes in trauma, mood and anxiety disorders, and personality disorders. More specifically, she works with individuals who have experienced abuse, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, anger, attachment issues, obsessive or ruminative thoughts or damaging behavioral patterns.
In corporate training, Dr. Terrighena creates interactive workshops from which attendees gain new insights and practical techniques to implement immediately. Corporate training in mental health is essential to help individuals maintain and enhance their wellbeing on a wider scale.
Dr. Terrighena maintains professional membership with the British Psychological Society, British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Hong Kong Psychological Society, and Psychotherapy Society of Hong Kong. She engages with these memberships to stay current with cutting edge research and training, which she uses to continuously enhance both her therapeutic and corporate practice. For more information on Dr. Terrighena, please check out her website on www.mind-balance.org.