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Burnout in Law, Mental Health, Law Enforcement --- "Boundaries" ---and the Need for Leaders and Policymakers to Continue with SYSTEMIC REFORMS

2/10/2022

World Health Organization says burnout may deserve medical attention

Is there a high burnout rate for lawyers?

Lawyer burnout is a growing but long-standing issue in the legal industry that over the past few years has become normalized and talked about in the open more often. ... With more legal professionals working remotely, it's harder than ever to create boundaries, and burnout is at an all-time high. Sep 9, 2021

Why Lawyer Burnout Is Still An Issue in 2021 - National Law ...

Mental Health Providers and Burnout

Studies estimate that anywhere between 21 percent and 61 percent of mental health practitioners experience signs of burnout (Morse et al., 2012). Burnout has been associated with workplace climate, caseload size and severity of client symptoms (Acker, 2011; Craig & Sprang, 2010; Thompson et al., 2014). Jan 25, 2018

Research roundup: Burnout in mental health providers - APA ...

Law enforcement burnout

Burnout begins when a police officer who was originally enthusiastic about the job begins to respond to the frustrations of police work in such ways as resenting superiors, drinking too much while off duty, experiencing problems at home, and ceasing to take the initiative on the job.

Burn Out - 'No One Can Imagine What the Costs Really Are'

There's a lot of OVERWHELM in our SYSTEMS.

From my standpoint --- "HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED" --- is our TREATMENTS are often NOT MAGIC BULLETS.

Further, its becoming more and more apparent why our treatments for PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS are NOT MAGIC BULLETS:

The person is often dealing with an underlying NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER involving NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL INFLAMMATION and DYSREGULATION of MULTIPLE SYSTEMS of the BODY.
Further, there's widespread low-grade inflammation throughout the population.

For attorneys and law enforcement --- there's a big need for Leaders and Policymakers to modify systems to move away from "US vs. Them" Thinking.

Problem Solving Courts have been a part of that effort.
There's actually if not UNIVERSAL AGREEMENT, pretty close to it that we have to have:
- COMMUNITY SAFETY, and
- HUMANE TREATMENT

For MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS, they need more SUPPORT from:

Translational Research Efforts
Epidemiologists
The Nation's Research and Teaching Hospitals

For attorneys, mental health providers, and law enforcement --- just because the numbers went up or the acuity level went up ----

DOES NOT MEAN THAT ANYONE GOT ANYMORE "BANDWIDTH"
We are BURNING PEOPLE OUT LEFT AND RIGHT
- We have to gain GREATER AWARENESS of what we are really asking of people ---
- As much as our HELPERS WANT TO HELP --- THEY HAVE LIMITS, TOO.

For REAL PROBLEM-SOLVING (rather than just a MOUNTAIN OF PAPERWORK) --- we have to invest TIME and RESOURCES to do that.

Further, we need our LEADERS and POLICYMAKERS to establish ON-GOING INCLUSIVE PROCESSES with ACCOUNTABILITY so we can get to VIABLE SOLUTIONS and further SYSTEMIC REFORMS.

LIKE AN INCLUSIVE OLMSTEAD PLANNING PROCESS with:

Measurable Goals
Reasonable Time Frames, and
Funding to Support the Plan

In-Groups and Out-Groups, the PAIN of SOCIAL ANIMALS & the POWER to DEFINE

2/7/2022

What those impractical philosophers and more pragmatic lawyers understand: How you DEFINE something often dictates the outcome.

When it comes to DEFINING our In-Groups and Out-Groups --- we're starting to realize that there's a certain NEVER-ENDING QUALITY to the MULTITUDE of these CATEGORIES.

Right now we're grappling with NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES, PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS and BRAIN INJURIES in the Criminal Justice System and the Society as a whole.

This is a SCARY discussion given where humans have been on GENOCIDE and EUGENICS.

It's been quite a long process of considering INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES of DIFFERENTIATION.

Neuro-Diversity is a MIXED BAG --- BUT we're all MIXED BAGS --- it's just easier to SEE the further out you get on one of many SPECTRUMS --- OR GROW UP & MATURE.

Leaked Amazon memo shows how it forces out employees to hit targets (April 2021)

PBS -- The Brain with David Eagleman
In-Groups and Out-Groups

Insights From fMRI Studies Into Ingroup Bias (2018)

Intergroup biases can manifest themselves between a wide variety of different groups such as people from different races, nations, ethnicities, political or religious beliefs, opposing sport teams or even arbitrary groups.

In this review we provide a neuroscientific overview of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies that have revealed how group dynamics impact on various cognitive and emotional systems at different levels of information processing.

We first describe how people can perceive the faces, words and actions of ingroup and outgroup members in a biased way.

Second, we focus on how activity in brain areas involved in empathizing with the pain of others, such as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and anterior insula (AI), are influenced by group membership.

Third, we describe how group membership influences activity in brain areas involved in mentalizing such as the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ).

Fourth, we discuss the involvement of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC) in increased moral sensitivity for outgroup threats.

Finally, we discuss how brain areas involved in the reward system such as the striatum and medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC), are more active when experiencing schadenfreude for outgroup harm and when rewarding ingroup (versus outgroup) members.

The value of these neuroscientific insights to better understand ingroup bias are discussed, as well as limitations and future research directions.

I remember when I first heard of the Greek practice of OSTRACISM --- it just didn't seem like that big a deal.

Transitional/ Translational Justice Monday

Burnout in Law, Mental Health, Law Enforcement --- "Boundaries" ---and the Need for Leaders and Policymakers to Continue with SYSTEMIC REFORMS

In-Groups and Out-Groups, the PAIN of SOCIAL ANIMALS & the POWER to DEFINE

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