Law Students in Balance: A Proposal for a Well-being Course for Law School Students Founded on the Constructs and Findings of Positive Psychology

摘要: Research shows that law students experience greater levels of depression, stress, and anxiety, also higher rates alcohol drug abuse than their peers at other graduate schools. Scholars from a broad array disciplines, such as psychology, law, education, suggest school—its pedagogy structure—is causal factor for students’ decreased physical mental well-being lower overall life satisfaction. Faced with the challenge to find innovative approaches problem distress, schools can use solutions insights offered by relatively new field positive psychology. This paper proposes an academic course, named Law Students in Balance, based on findings science well-being. The course may be instrumental managing stress anxiety among students, and, most importantly, preventing psychological distress practicing attorneys. It endeavors explain how emotions, individual’s signature character strengths, various tools building resilience, learned turn yield scientifically tested outcomes: and/or prevent depression increase