Managing Clients, Colleagues and Conflict - Psychology and the Law Series: Madness, Sadness and Badness: How to Understand the Personality Traits of Your Clients
In this series of workshops, you will look at how psychological principles and an understanding of human behaviour can influence your work with clients and colleagues in the legal profession to achieve better outcomes. You will focus on better understanding the different personality styles of client, building effective client-lawyer relationships, and conflict resolution strategies. Your facilitators will guide you as experienced lawyers and clinical psychologists. WEB227N42A
Description
Attend the and earn 1.5 CPD units in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Madness, Sadness and Badness: How to Understand the Personality Traits of Your Clients
Better understand different personality traits, and how these might present in your clients. Examine some of the most common personality traits that you might see in your legal work.
- Overview of different personality traits:
- Narcissistic
- Borderline
- Antisocial
- Introversion
- Extroversion
- What to expect from clients who present for legal representation with the different personality traits
- Psychological strategies and techniques that can help engage clients with different personality traits
Presented by Dr Katie Wood, Clinical Psychologist and Julia Vitebsky, Solicitor
Presenters
Dr Katie Wood
Katie is an Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Here, she is the course director for the Master of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) and Master of Counselling (and nested suites). She earned her PhD at La Trobe University and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychologists. Katie’s research and clinical interests are in performance psychology, twin psychology, and child and adolescent mental health, including ASD, early relational trauma, and family violence. She is an author on numerous publications in this field, and has been in private practice for over 20 years where she works with clients across the lifespan. Previously, she has worked at Eastern Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and Albert Road Centre for Health.
Julia Vitebsky
Julia was admitted to practice in 2016 after graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Laws (Juris Doctor). She completed both degrees whilst having successfully competed nationally and internationally as a professional ballroom dancer for many years. Julia is incredibly client focused, commercially minded and pragmatic in her approach to every legal matter. Julia’s experience and skills in a number of different areas in private practice, including but not limited to, Family Law, Commercial Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property Law and Wills and Estates.