Research Guides: Grit &amp; Resilience: Well-Being for Law Students and Lawyers: Reading List

Books

Use Library Search to find print and online books in the library collection. Try these subject headings:

Law students — United States — Handbooks, manuals, etc
Mindfulness (Psychology)
Success — Psychological aspects

Browse select titles on display in the fourth floor west study area.

Presence by Amy Cuddy
Call Number: BF575.S39 C83 2015
Learn the simple techniques you'll need to approach your biggest challenges with confidence. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret. By accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves.
Surthriving Law School (and Beyond...) by W. Adam Hunt
Call Number: KF287 .H868 2021
This guide to surviving and thriving (aka "surthriving") in law school--and beyond--is filled with unique insights from a former BigLaw associate (and current in-house counsel) as well as accomplished guest contributors who offer actionable tools, candid advice, and helpful strategies that law students and all legal professionals can start using today to immediately achieve more happiness, success and well-being in law (and life).
Winning Conditions by Christine Hofbeck
Call Number: online ebook
Professional success is often largely influenced by the manner in which you share or present your work. Winning Conditions is a joyful, insightful, and empowering book about delivering your work and ideas so that they (and you!) are more likely to be recognized, accepted, and celebrated. With Winning Conditions, you can show the world what you are capable of--it's probably more than you ever thought possible.
The Law Student's Guide to Doing Well and Being Well by Shailini Jandial George
Call Number: KF287 .G46 2021
This book aims to help students "do well" in their ability to learn, and "be well" in the process, by exploring the deep connection between brain health and wellness -- how to focus and deal digital distractions, how stress affects both brain and body, how resilience helps us deal with challenges, and what role exercise plays in mental, physical, and brain health.
How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School by Kathryne M. Young
Call Number: online ebook
After finishing law school and a PhD, the author set out to learn more about the law school experience and how to improve it for future students. Young studied the experiences of over 1,000 law students from over 100 different law schools, along with hundreds of alumni, dropouts, law professors, and more.
The Law Student's Pocket Mentor by Ann L. Iijima
Call Number: KF283 .I35 2007
A practical, step-by-step guide that uses exercises, worksheets, and checklists to help students identify their needs, plan strategies, and organize their efforts to maximize success in law school. This guide covers essential academic skills, career preparation skills, emotional aspects of legal education, and special concerns of non-traditional students.
Untangling Fear in Lawyering by Heidi K. Brown
Call Number: KF311 .B76 2019
Scientists confirm that fear blocks learning and performance. It can stoke anxiety and depression in a profession already saturated with mental health challenges. This book discusses the reality, causes, manifestations, and consequences of fear in legal education and practice, from the standpoint of law students, junior attorneys, and clients.
The Introverted Lawyer by Heidi K. Brown
Call Number: KF300 .B75 2017
The Introverted Lawyer illuminates the traits introverted, shy, and socially anxious individuals bring to the legal profession--including active listening, deep thinking, empathy, impactful legal writing, creative problem-solving, and thoughtful communication. To help quiet law students and lawyers become powerful advocates, the book outlines a seven-step process to empower individuals to amplify their voices without compromising their quiet assets.

Online study aid collections

Don't overlook law school success titles in the online study aid collections.

Aspen Learning Library (formerly, Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library)
Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, videos on fundamental legal concepts, and more can be found in the Aspen Learning Library, formerly known as the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library. Read ebooks online or install an app and download materials for off-line study. Register a personal account to save notes, highlights, and bookmarks then log in directly at aspenlearninglibrary.com. Temple Law students, faculty, and staff can connect via this link or request access by sending a message to tulawlib@temple.edu.

Law School Survival Manual by Nancy Rapoport; Jeffrey D. Van Neil
Call Number: KF283 .R37 2010
Strategies and Tactics for the First Year Law Student by Steven L. Emanuel

West Academic Study Aids
Familiar study aids like Nutshells, Hornbooks, Gilbert Law Summaries, and more are now accessible online through the West Academic Study Aids package. Resources are available for 1L and upper division courses, as well as law school and career success. To use these study aids remotely or through the mobile app, create an account from a campus computer. Use the link above, click "Create an Account," and register using your @temple.edu email. Accounts are available for all Temple Law School students, faculty, and staff. These study aids are not a part of Westlaw Edge; register a separate account.
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Articles

Wellness, Mindfulness, Work-life Balance
The ABA's Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs gathers articles from national and local groups on a variety of wellness topics.
Proceedings of the Mindful Lawyer Conference
The Mindful Lawyer Conference: Practices & Prospects for Law School, Bench, and Bar, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Oct. 29-31, 2010.
Humanism Goes to Law School
Marjorie A. Silver, Symposium Introduction: Humanism Goes to Law School, 28 Touro L. Rev. 1141 (2012).
Suﬀering in Silence: The Survey of Law Student Well-Being and the Reluctance of Law Students to Seek Help for Substance Use and Mental Health Concerns
Jerome M. Organ, David B. Jaﬀe & Katherine M. Bender, Suﬀering in Silence: The Survey of Law Student Well-Being and the Reluctance of Law Students to Seek Help for Substance Use and Mental Health Concerns, 66 J. Legal Educ., Autumn 2016, at 116.
Mindfulness in Law Scholarly Articles
Works curated by the Institute for Mindfulness Studies.

Blogs

How to Deal with Law School Stress in Healthy Ways
How to Deal with Law School Stress in Healthy Ways, New England School of Law.
Essential tips and strategies for keeping everything in perspective.
A 2L's Guide to 1L Year: How to Go From Surviving to Succeeding
Gabriella Martin, A 2L's Guide to 1L Year: How to Go From Surviving to Succeeding, The Girl's Guide to Law School, Oct. 3, 2017.
Five tips for your first year from someone who's been where you are.
Lawyers with Depression
Thoughts and advice from a lawyer living with depression.
Jenna Cho - The Anxious Lawyer Blog
Author of The Anxious Lawyer (ABA), Jeena Cho was an Assistant State Attorney and also practiced bankruptcy law for over fifteen years. This blog covers resilience, work/life integration, and wellness in the workplace.

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