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Full-Text Articles in Juvenile Law
Delinquency And Justice, Michael Blinick
Compassion Fatigue: Caveat Caregiver?, Jennifer Baum
Compassion Fatigue: Caveat Caregiver?, Jennifer Baum
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Most of us are familiar with the stereotype of the burned out lawyer who drags herself to work in the morning, makes cynical comments throughout the day, no longer provides her best service to her clients, and goes home bored and uninspired. You may wonder why someone so uncaring ever became a child advocate in the first place, or how she lost her spark. And you know this could never happen to you. Right?
Wrong, according to a panel of experts convened by the ABA Section of Litigation’s Children’s Rights Litigation Committee in a teleconference examining the phenomenon recently …