After serving in the Vietnam War, Charles Figley became interested in the concept of trauma—not only the lasting psychological wounds that people experienced after living through traumatic events ...

Constant exposure to substandard environments may make emergency clinicians overlook the everyday indignities of care, but ...

How Compassion Fatigue Can Overwhelm Charity Workers — and What to Do About It the International Traumatology Institute, measures levels of compassion fatigue, burnout, and satisfaction and can give ...

in Virginia, traveled to northern New Jersey to consult at the Bon Secours hospitals in Hoboken and Jersey City. She wasn’t there to help take care of the hospitals’ patients, but rather their staff ...

Compassion fatigue can be physical, emotional, or spiritual exhaustion that overtakes the otherwise positive and fulfilling experience of helping others when we over-empathize (Figley, 2002a). Often ...

Kyann Mitchner from Sunbeam Family Services highlighted the impact of compassion fatigue on individuals caring for others, offering strategies like self-assessment and gratitude to manage the ...

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Last year, Eric Singhi, MD, a thoracic medical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, noticed a shift in his team. The small band of four clinicians, once motivated and enthusiastic, were ...

Whether good or bad, we all experience stress. This is particularly true for professional caregivers, especially as decreased funding can lead to higher caseloads and longer hours for many caregivers.

In professions requiring emotional investment and exposure to others’ struggles, terms like compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma often come up. While these conditions share some similarities, they ...

A compassionate neurofeedback game that can identify fatigue aims to help patients with MS, according to a poster presented ...

In the field of palliative of care, there is ever-increasing interest in the concept of compassion fatigue. Related topics include stress, burnout, self-care, and work-life balance. Little attention ...