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Lawyers seek removal of MH question from bar applications
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32124
Subject(s) - bar (unit) , stigma (botany) , mental illness , association (psychology) , mental health , state (computer science) , mental state , political science , voluntary association , law , psychiatry , criminology , psychology , geography , psychotherapist , computer science , algorithm , meteorology
Observing that stigma around mental illness remains a chief barrier to treatment within the legal profession, not to mention the public at large, the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), a voluntary bar association, is fighting to remove all mentions of mental health from bar applications.