The ‘I Belong in the LLB’ Program

See, eg, Field Rachael Duffy James James Colin , Promoting Law Student and Lawyer Weil-Being in Australia and Beyond (Ashgate, 2016 forthcoming).

Kelk Norm , Courting the Blues: Attitudes towards Depression in Australian Law Students and Lawyers (2009) Brain & Mind Research Institute Monograph <http://www.cald.asn.au/docs/Law%20Report%20Website%20version%204%20May%2009.pdf>.

Ainsworth Shaaron , ‘How Do Animations Influence Learning?’ in Robinson Daniel Schraw Gregory (eds), Innovations in Educational Technology that Facilitate Student Learning (Information Age Publishing, 2008) 37.

See, eg, Field Duffy James , above n 1, for a summary of this evidence.

Kelk , above n 2. This endeavour is obviously complicated by the fact that we cannot pinpoint exactly what causes decline in law student well-being across entire cohorts.

As we discuss later in this section, this suggestion is informed by understandings from positive psychology.

Compare this perspective to that expressed in Parker Christine , ‘The “Moral Panic” over Psychological Well-being in the Legal Profession’ (2014) 37(3) UNSW Law Journal 1103.

See also Daicoff Susan , Lawyer, Know Thyself: A Psychological Analysis of Personality Strengths and Weaknesses (American Psychological Association, 2004).

See, eg, Field Rachael Duffy James Huggins Anna , Lawyering and Positive Professional Identities (LexisNexis, 2014).

Tang Stephen , ‘Valuing Persons and Communities in Doing Wellness for Law Well’ in Field Duffy James , above n 1.

Ibid.

Seligman Martin , ‘Positive Psychology Progress’ (2005) 60(5) American Psychologist 410, 410.

Peterson Christopher , A Primer in Positive Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2006) 5.

Seligman Martin Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly , ‘Positive Psychology: An Introduction’ (2000) 55 American Psychologist 5, 5.

Peterson Todd David Peterson Elizabeth Waters , ‘Stemming the Tide of Law Student Depression’ (2009) Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 357, 362; Seligman Csikszentmihalyi , above n 14, 7.

PERM A stands for Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Purpose, Achievement. See Seligman Martin , Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being (Free Press, 2011); and see also the helpful summary of PERMA <http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/perma.htm>.

Peterson Christopher Seligman Martin , Character Strengths and Values: A Handbook and Classification (Oxford University Press, 2004).

See, eg, Ryan Richard Deci Edward , ‘Self Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development and Well-Being’ (2000) 55(1) American Psychologist 68; Huggins Anna , ‘Autonomy Supportive Curriculum Design: A Salient Factor in Promoting Law Students' Wellbeing’ (2012) 35(3) UNSW Law Journal 683.

Field Rachael , ‘Stimulating Strategic Change in Legal Education to Address High Levels of Psychological Distress in Law Students’ Final Report (Office of Learning and Teaching, 2014).

See Kift Sally Nelson Karen Clarke John , ‘Transition Pedagogy: A Third Generation Approach to FYE – A Case Study of Policy and Practice for the Higher Education Sector’ (2010) 1(1) International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education 1, 4.

Field Rachael Duffy James Huggins Anna , ‘Teaching Independent Learning Skills in the First Year’ (2015) 8(2) Journal of Learning Design 1.

See, eg, Cranney Jacquelyn Dunn Dana (eds), The Psychologically Literate Citizen: Foundations and Global Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2011); and Mair Carolyn Taylor Jacqui Hulme Julie , A Guide to Psychological Literacy and Psychologically Literate Global Citizenship (Higher Education Academy, 2013).

The QUT Law School is happy to share the animation and our hope is that other Law Schools might adapt or adopt it for their own students. Please contact the lead author if you would like to be given access to the animation.

See, eg, Lowe Ric , ‘Animation and Learning: Selective Processing of Information in Dynamic Graphics’ (2003) 13 Learning and Instruction 157; and Hoffler Tim Leutner Detlev , ‘Instructional Animation Versus Static Pictures’ (2007) 17 Learning and Instruction 722, 723.

We are indebted to Will James' animation talents and skills and his generous contribution to this project while a student in his final year of animation at Griffith University.

However, see Schnotz Wolfgang Rasch Thorsten , ‘Enabling, Facilitating, and Inhibiting Effects of Animations in Multimedia Learning’ (2005) 53(3) Educational Technology Research and Development 47.

Lewalter Doris , ‘Cognitive Strategies for Learning from Static and Dynamic Visuals’ (2003) 13 Learning and Instruction 177, 177–8, 178.

O'Rourke Maureen , ‘Engaging Students through ICTs’ (2002) TechKnowLogia 57, 58.

Tversky Barbara Morrison Julie Bauer , ‘Animation: Can it Facilitate?’ (2002) 57 International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 247, 258.

Kombartzky Uwe , ‘Developing and Evaluating a Strategy for Learning from Animations’ (2010) 20 Learning and Instruction 424.

See, eg, Barak Miri Ashkar Tamar Dori Yehudit , ‘Learning Science via Animated Movies: Its Effect on Students' Thinking and Motivation’ (2011) 56(3) Computers and Education 839.

For examples of the limited treatment of animation in legal education contexts see: Merritt Deborah , ‘Legal Education in the Age of Cognitive Science and Advanced Classroom Technology’ (2008) 14(1) Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law 39; Saxer Shelley Ross , ‘One Professor's Approach to Increasing Technology Use in Legal Education’ (1999–2000) 6(4) Richmond Journal of Law and Technology 21.

World Health Organization, ‘I Had a Black Dog, His Name Was Depression’ (animation) (2012) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCrniLQGYc>.

See <https://www.headspace.com/>.