TY - JOUR AU - Tang, Stephen AU - Ferguson, Anneka PY - 2014 TI - The Possibility Of Wellbeing: Preliminary Results From Surveys Of Australian Professional Legal Education Students JF - QUT Law Review; Vol 14 No 1 (2014): QUT Law Review Special Edition : Wellness for Law DO - 10.5204/qutlr.v14i1.521 KW - professional legal education; psychological wellbeing; psychological distress N2 - Surveys of students in the Australian National University’s Legal Workshop Professional Legal Education (PLE) programme showed that students began and ended a core course with low levels of psychological distress.  In contrast to other studies, we found no evidence of elevated symptoms of depressive symptoms and no signs that this PLE programme may impair wellbeing.  While small increases in average stress symptoms were observed, this was associated with a more positive course experience.  Self-perceptions of professional identity and concurrent legal employment predicted lower distress, suggesting that wellbeing is enhanced by building meaningful connections between legal education and students’ wider identities. UR - https://lr.law.local/article/view/521