Marty Peters, professor of legal education,
gave a presentation on the factors that cause stress among
law school students during the Humanizing Legal Education
Conference. Held Oct. 19-21 in Topeka, Kan., the conference
was hosted by Washburn University School of Law.
Peters' presentation was titled
"A Model for Stress Intervention: Toward Humanizing
Legal Education." She compared a previous study she did
on law student stressors with a recent study another
conference presenter had completed at two different law
schools. Peters says the comparison was "both confirming
and disturbing, because the stressors perceived by law
students (do) not appear to have changed."
Peters focused her remarks on
identifying sources of stress and providing intervention
points that could help students and faculty manage law school
stress more effectively. She used the perception of control
as a psychological intervention to illustrate concrete ways
to help students build effective stress management
strategies.
Conference participants came from 45
law schools and 31 states and foreign countries,
including Canada and Australia.
