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  • Researchers at the University of Kentucky School of Social Work's Self-Care Lab, in collaboration with the National Association for Public Defense, conducted a national study to examine self-care practices of those employed in public defense. The study focused on five domains of profeessional self-care: professional support, professional development, congnitive awareness, daily balance, and life support.

    A total of 9,056 partiicpants provided data via an electronic survey.

    A glimpse of the reported data can be viewed HERE

    A more detailed analysis will be available soon.