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Well-Being & Support: Library Readings

Select Readings on Wellness through the Law Library for the Georgetown University Law Center Community

Well-Being Books: Select Titles

Well-Being E-Books: Select Titles

Well-Being Books for the Georgetown Law Community

Curated Titles for Georgetown Law Students

Publications collected by the Law Library that focus, discuss and promote wellness among law students and in the legal profession may be found under Lawyer Wellness in the Law Library Catalog.

Law Center Supportive Services

The Law Center's supportive services have recommended well-being and support readings and these may be found in the following guides:

LinkedIn Learning

Offered by the Hilltop Campus Lauinger Library, LinkedIn Learning is a library of trainings, weekly tips and self-guided courses to support your work life and help develop professional skills or learn new ones.The library covers topics in business (e.g.,s strategy, collaboration, diversity and inclusion), creativity (e.g., graphic design, photography, web design) and technology (e.g., computing, help desk skills, development). The following are LinkedIn Learning collection of online materials to support your wellness.

Topic: Health and Well-Being Topic: Mindfulness
Skill: Meditation Skill: Mindful Meditation
Course: Supporting Your Well-Being during Times of Change and Uncertainty Topic: Personal Effectiveness
Skill: Self-confidence Skill: Work Life Balance
Skill: Resiliency Skill: Anxiety Management

Sign in with your Georgetown email and you should then be directed to the university's single sign-on. There are more tips, audio-only and video courses in LinkedIn Learning that can be discovered by searching for keywords.

Law Library Catalog

Even more readings may be found by searching the Law Library catalog under relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings or keywords. The search results that appear by clicking on the subjects or keywords in the table in this section includes titles that are carried by the local academic libraries (members of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC)) and may be available to the Georgetown Law community members either through electronic access or a book borrowing service. For more information about how to borrow books, please contact the Law Library's Circulation Desk, 202-662-9131.

You may modify any large results by selecting a suggested Subject on the filter column. For example, the results for Books on Physical fitness may be limited to Physical Fitness for Women by selecting that Subject on the screen. You may also limit the results by adding a keyword into the search form and performing a new search.

You may check if there are locally held videos on these topics by removing Book as a Resource Type filter from the search results and then applying a Video filter instead.

Achievement motivation Adjustment (Psychology) Behavior modification
Bereavement Change (Psychology) Cognitive therapy
Cookbooks | Recipes Cooking--Courses & Dishes | --Methods | --Regional & Ethnic | Quick & easy cooking Creative ability
"Eating well" (as keywords) "Emotional balance" (as keywords) Faith & Belief & Doubt
Goal (Psychology) Grief Habit break
Happiness  Health & Fitness / Healthy Living Health & Fitness--Work Related Health
"Health eating" (as keywords) Insight Interpersonal communication
Interpersonal relations "Meditation" (as keyword) Meditation--Buddhism
Meditation--Therapeutic Use Mental fatigue Mindfulness
Mood "Motivation" (as keyword) Motivation in education
New thought Peace of mind Perfectionism
Physical fitness Pilates method Positive psychology
Quality of life Resilience Self-acceptance
Self-actualization Self-care, Health Self-confidence
Self-esteem Self-Help Personal Growth | -- General | --Happiness | --Success Self-help techniques
Self-realization Solitude Spirituality
Stretching exercises Success Stress management
Telecommuting Thought and thinking Walking
Well-being Work-life balance Yoga | Hatha yoga | Yin yoga