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LAP’s Mission
- Assist lawyers, judges, and law
students
- Protect public
- Educate the legal community
How Does LAP Work?
- Confidential! Supreme Court
How Not to Get Old : Avoiding Forced Retirement Tony Pacione, MSW, - - PDF document
How Not to Get Old : Avoiding Forced Retirement Tony Pacione, MSW, - - PDF document
How Not to Get Old : Avoiding Forced Retirement Tony Pacione, MSW, MAEd Illinois Lawyers Assistance Program 20 S. Clark Street, Suite 450, Chicago, IL 1-800-LAP-1233 This slide intentionally blank 1 LAPs Mission Assist lawyers,
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How Does LAP Work?
Who We Serve
psychological 51% Substance 47%
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2%
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Who We Serve
Depression/Mania 55% Anxiety/Stress 43% self-harm thoughts 3%
Who We Serve
81% 8% 1% 3% 7% Alcohol Stimulants Depressants THC Opiates
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Age of LAP Clients
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
<50 50-60 >60 75% 14% 11%
FY 2017
Aging quickly…
In millions 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Source: US Census Bureau
2010 2020 2030 2040 2050
Number of Americans over 65
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Elder LAP Clients
- Multiple issues
- Reluctant to seek help and retire
- Higher suicide risk
- Greater physical impairment
- Increased depression and anxiety
Elder LAP Clients
- Most solo practitioners, small firms
- No succession plan
- Most referred by colleagues or family
- Financial pressures
- Memory vs. judgment, executive
functions
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What to look for “Follow the MAP“
(Pacione & Belleau, ABA Solo Practice Journal, May 2015)
Mood or attitudinal disturbances Appearanceor physical changes Productivityand quality of work
Age Resiliency- Or what I need to do when I Turned 60
- Meeting goals in spite of adversity
- Sustained competence under stress
- Ability to recover from set backs
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“Persistent Patience” = Self Efficacy
Self Efficacy
Awareness of your limits
- Taking risks, not chances
Confidence in problem solving ability Maintain focus in accomplishing goals Comfortable with resources, and asking for help Willingness to invest effort Intrepid of the Unknown
Based on Bandura 1977, 1994
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Staying in “Control”
Optimistic Pessimistic External Locus Internal Locus
Based on J Rotter 1960
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John wooden
- 1. Non-judging
- 2. Patience
- 3. Fresh Mind
- 4. Non-striving
- 5. Acceptance
- 6. Letting Go
- 7. Trust
J Kabat-Zinn, 1990
Mindfulness (Based Stress Reduction): Skill Set:
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Courage and Acceptance
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change: I am changing the things I cannot accept.” Unknown Challenge Your Thinking
Identify the thought Challenge the thought Evaluate the thought
Pacione 2003
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Thoren, 2014
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Prioritizing Positivity
Catalino et al 2014
Emotional - Intellectual Flexibility
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Silver 2012 Specialized Order Seeking Ideological Stubborn Over-Confident Stalwart- ‘all in’
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Multidisciplinary Tolerant of Complexity Empirical Self critical (not criticizing self) Cautious Adaptable Attitude of Gratitude