New study says difficulty of handling asylum cases pushes judges to the edge and may affect their rulings.
July 13, 2009
Immigration judges, who day in and day out listen to horrific personal
stories of asylum seekers, suffer from significant job burnout and
secondary traumatic stress, which may affect their rulings, according
to a recent study.
After analyzing data from 96 immigration judges who participated in the study, researchers from the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at the University of California, San Francisco found that the judges, especially female judges, are more burned out than hospital-based doctors who care for the gravely ill and prison wardens who oversee society's most dangerous members.
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