Imagination, Hope, and Joy: Building Resilience through Trauma-Informed Teaching and Self-Care in Anti-Racist Clinics

J Law Med Ethics. 2024;52(2):271-283. doi: 10.1017/jme.2024.119. Epub 2024 Oct 22.

Abstract

Teaching students to build resilience is necessary to keep imagining and fighting for a path towards social justice. To do so, clinicians can draw from the communities facing oppression and examine how they remain resilient despite oppression.

Keywords: Anti-Racism; Law; Self-Care; Teaching; Trauma-Informed Teaching.

MeSH terms

  • Hope
  • Humans
  • Imagination
  • Racism*
  • Resilience, Psychological*
  • Self Care
  • Social Justice