On June 20th, 2018, Manel Atserias Luque (President) and Tomas Gabriel García Micó (first Vice President) of the Mental Health Institute of Legal Professions met with Carlos Bel, head of Human Capital of PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Catalonia. During the meeting, which lasted approximately two hours, Carlos Bel explained the wellbeing policies that the firm is […]
Note: This picture has been included by the Council of Government By Shirin Forootan Last year I was honored to be appointed Chair of the OCBA Lawyer Well-Being Task Force (formerly Amicus Alo), and ever since, I often ponder what we can do as a bar association to help our lawyers overcome personal and life […]
U.S. Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren is pioneer for creating the first Mental Health Court of the United States of America (Broward County Court, 17th judicial circuit, State of Florida) since 1997 and she is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Mental Health Institute of Legal Professions (ISMA, by its abbreviation in Spanish) One […]
In recent days the Mental Health Institute of Legal Professions (ISMA, by its abbreviation in Spanish) has been immersed in a vortex of frenetic activity that, from the Council of Government, is very positively assessed. 1. Friday, May 18. Informative breakfast at the ISDE As it had been announced for some time, the ISMA held […]
By Bob Murray New method helps identify causal mechanisms in depression A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging looks at the driving influence of brain regions in depression. What the researchers say The researchers note that people with major depressive disorder have alterations in the activity and connectivity of brain systems underlying […]