Litigation stress

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Litigation stress refers to negative mental health consequences (psychological stress) associated with judicial proceedings. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Some related issues caused by litigation stress include privacy concerns, adversarialization and psychological trauma. [2] [3] [6]

Parties particularly vulnerable to litigation stress include those with existing health issues, parties alleging sexual assault or harassment, parties in cases involving family conflict and parties in cases involving medical malpractice. [8] In the latter context, this topic is sometimes known as the medical malpractice stress syndrome (MMSS). [7]

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  1. ↑ Johnson, Nancy J.; Wroblewski, Mary; Columnists, Guest Law (1989). "Litigation Stress in Nurses" . Nursing Management. 20 (10): 23–25. doi:10.1097/00006247-198910000-00005. ISSN   0744-6314. PMID   2586931.
  2. 1 2 Gutheil, Thomas G.; Bursztajn, Harold; Brodsky, Archie; Strasburger, Larry H. (2000). "Preventing "Critogenic" Harms: Minimizing Emotional Injury from Civil Litigation" . The Journal of Psychiatry & Law. 28 (1): 5–18. doi:10.1177/009318530002800102. ISSN   0093-1853. S2CID   74526614.
  3. 1 2 Strasburger, L. H. (1999). "The litigant-patient: mental health consequences of civil litigation". The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 27 (2): 203–211. ISSN   1093-6793. PMID   10400429.
  4. ↑ "The Litigation Stress Syndrome" , Avoiding Medical Malpractice, New York, NY: Springer New York, pp. 79–81, 2008, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-73064-6_12, ISBN   978-0-387-73063-9 , retrieved 2023-03-21
  5. ↑ Ryll, Nancy A. (2015-03-01). "Living Through Litigation: Malpractice Stress Syndrome" . Journal of Radiology Nursing. Legal Topics for Radiology Nurses. 34 (1): 35–38. doi:10.1016/j.jradnu.2014.11.007. ISSN   1546-0843.
  6. 1 2 Keet, Michaela; Heavin, Heather; Sparrow, Shawna (2017). "Anticipating and Managing the Psychological Cost of Civil Litigation". Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice. 34 (2): 73–98. doi: 10.22329/wyaj.v34i2.5023 . ISSN   2561-5017.
  7. 1 2 Metzner, Jeffrey L.; Gendel, Michael H. (2022), Ash, Peter; Frierson, Richard L.; Friedman, Susan Hatters (eds.), "The Stress of Being Sued" , Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 79–84, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-91975-7_11, ISBN   978-3-030-91975-7 , retrieved 2023-03-21
  8. 1 2 Keet, Michaela; Heavin, Heather D.; Lande, John (2020-01-20). "Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment: Help Your Clients Make Good Litigation Decisions". SSRN   3522678.


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