KelkNorm, Courting the Blues: Attitudes Towards Depression in Australian Law Students and Legal Practitioners, BMRI Monograph 2009–1, 10–13.
3.
EatonWilliam W, ‘Occupations and the Prevalence of Major Depressive Disorder’ (1990) 32 (11) Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine1079, 1087.
4.
DammeyerMatthew MNunezNarina, ‘Anxiety and Depression among Law Students: Current Knowledge and Future Directions’ (1999) 23(1) Law and Human Behaviour55, 71–73. Also see Eaton, above n 3; SheldonKennon MKriegerLawrence S‘Understanding the Negative Effects of Legal Education on Law Students: A Longitudinal Test of Self-Determination Theory’ (2007) 33(6) Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin883.
5.
Hardy, above n 1, 2.
6.
For further details on the potential of non adversarial justice and therapeutic jurisprudence's impacts on the mental health of lawyers, see KingMichael, Non Adversarial Justice (2009) 234.
7.
SeligmanMartin, ‘Why Lawyers are Unhappy’ (2001) 23Cardozo Law Review33.
8.
Kelk, above n 2, 26–31; DammeyerNunez, above n 4. Also see, Mary E Pritchard and Daniel N McIntosh ‘What predicts adjustment among law students? A longitudinal panel study’ (2003) 143(6) The Journal of Social Psychology727–745; ReifmanAlanMcIntoshDaniel NEllsworthPhoebe C‘Depression and affect among law students during law school’ (2000) 2(1) Journal of Emotional Abuse93, 93–97; AndrewGBenjaminH, ‘The Role of Legal Education in Producing Psychological Distress Among Law Students and Lawyers’ (1986) 11(2) Law and Social Inquiry225–252.
9.
741 students were surveyed: Kelk, above n 2.
10.
Ibid, 26–31.
11.
Benjamin, above n 8.
12.
AllenJudyBaronPaula, ‘Buttercup Goes to Law School: Student Wellbeing in Stressed Law Schools’ (2004) 29(6) Alternative Law Journal135, 141
13.
Ibid.
14.
PritchardMcIntosh, above n 8.
15.
Ibid.
16.
TaniMassimilianoVinesPrue, ‘Law Students’ Attitudes to Education: Pointers to Depression in the Legal Academy and the Profession' (2009) 19(1) Legal Education Review3–39.
17.
See KiftSally, Articulating a transition pedagogy to scaffold and to enhance the first year student learning experience in Australian Higher Education, Final Report, ALTC Senior Fellowship Program (August 2009).
18.
A lecture delivered to all first year law students at the beginning of the year, Part I of Wellbeing and the Law series: Health, Wellbeing and Performance discussing mental health and wellbeing and specific implications for law students. Delivered at the end of the first year is Part II of the series: Performance@Law discussing law students' performance in light of recent developments in Neuroplasticity — positive implications for learning, attention focus, attention density, resilience and graduate attributes are highlighted.
19.
The amount of matched data was n=165.
20.
LovibondSHLovibondPeter, Manual for the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, (2nd ed, 1995).
21.
WatsonDavidClarkLee AnnaTellegenAuke, ‘Development and Validation of the Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect: The PANAS Scale’ (1988) 54(6) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology1063, 1070.
