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To learn more about compassion fatigue, read “Compassion Fatigue Resilience” or The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Self-care Strategies for the Helping Professions. There is also a special issue of the journal Traumatology devoted to secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
Compassion fatigue is a type of traumatization comprised of two components: secondary traumatic stress and burnout (Gentry, 2002). Secondary traumatic stress occurs when we are supporting students whose life challenges are traumatic and shocking, and we are psychologically overwhelmed endeavoring to assist them (Cordaro, 2020).
Empathy, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout in Police Officers Working With Rape Victims Pages 205–213 Turgoose, David; Glover, Naomi; Barker, Chris; Maddox, Lucy; Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurses: Relationships With Work Stress and Perceived Social Support Pages 214–222 Barr, Peter
“Compassion fatigue is very real,” Stein said. “In talking personally with providers, it is clear that they feel helpless advocating for folks and knowing the unpredictability that they face.” Seeing ever-more-restrictive national policies and an oppressive political climate for immigrants exacerbates the sense of helplessness, she said.
An emerging body of evidence suggests that mindfulness may protect mental health professionals at risk for compassion fatigue, according to a review of the literature by British psychologists David Turgoose, PhD, and Lucy Maddox, PhD ( Traumatology, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2017). You don't have to have a full-scale meditation practice, says ACCA co ...
“Experts suggest that animal welfare agents carry an even heavier burden than those in other helping professions who are susceptible to compassion fatigue because of the issues unique to working with animals, such as euthanasia and caring for living beings who have experienced pain and suffering but cannot articulate their needs and ...
Self-compassion can add another resource to help you manage stress, according to Burnett-Zeigler. When you take breaks, try to find small ways to recalibrate your thinking. Acknowledge the pressure you may put on yourself for how you should be doing or feeling and remind yourself that you’re doing the best you can with the resources you have.
This introductory workshop introduces techniques to foster preparedness, resilience, and effective coping in the face of exposure to trauma-related material. Learn to differentiate between secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue and the factors that confer risk or resilience.
Nearly 3 in 5 employees reported negative impacts of work-related stress, including lack of interest, motivation, or energy (26%) and lack of effort at work (19%). Meanwhile, 36% reported cognitive weariness, 32% reported emotional exhaustion, and an astounding 44% reported physical fatigue—a 38% increase since 2019.
To avoid compassion fatigue with patients—and maintain the empathy required for helping them—Poulin said it’s important to reflect on the patient’s feeling or experience without necessarily trying to feel it yourself. “It’s about putting yourself in the right role,” he said.