Common sense suggests that to ensure good performance on the road, drivers must tune up their vehicles. Blowouts and breakdowns on the road can be costly in terms of both time and money. Department is offering a new publication, Handbook on Stress Management for Lawyers . The manual starts with a 20-item quiz that allows you to evaluate your own level of stress. The most common symptoms of stress are listed by category, allowing the reader to locate his or her specific pattern of responses to stress.
Interaction is key Social support is a powerful reducer of stress and promoter of well-being.
It may be one of the oldest forms of stress management, as old as society itself, found, for example, in the informal social networks that developed around religious institutions, neighborhoods, schools, etc. The handbook devotes an entire section to peer-group resources, both avocational and vocational, with specific information about how to locate them in your community and how to form your own collegial support group. For those mired down in symptoms, unremitting stress, and a sense of having no control over their situation and no viable resources within their own support network, the handbook serves as a guide through the labyrinth of professional counselling services available in New York State, with specific resources for lawyers around the country. The chapter on professional resources provides information that will assist lawyers in finding counselors who are right for them and their situation. It also includes brief overviews of the main types of professional counselors, the basic modes and approaches to counseling, what one can expect from counseling, and the costs.