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What is Compassion Fatigue

Chapter 7
Mental Health and Wellness in Healthcare Workers: Identifying Risks, Prevention, and Treatment
The exhaustion and emotional withdrawal experienced by those in the helping professions that results in the diminishment or loss of compassion towards one’s clients or patients.
Published in Chapter:
Conceptual Understanding of Provider Responses to the Complexity of Healthcare Delivery
Tracey C. Arnold (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) and E. Carol Polifroni (University of Connecticut, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8813-0.ch007
Abstract
This chapter introduces complexity science as a framework for understanding the healthcare delivery system and the inherent challenges it poses for healthcare providers. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's triple aim, which focuses on the patient experience, population health, and decreased costs, served the health disciplines for a short period of time. It was then recognized that the healthcare provider, the worker at the point of care, was instrumental in the success of the triple aim. This concept, the health and wellbeing of the worker, came to be crystallized as meaning and joy in one's work. The chapter explores this positive affect concept as well as that of compassion satisfaction along with negative affect occupational-based strains occurring for the healthcare provider as they navigate working in the complex healthcare delivery system of the United States.
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Applying Self-Care to Strategically Prevent Burnout in Early Career K-12 Teachers
A cumulative or acute condition specifically brought about by empathizing with others’ trauma related experiences, leaving the worker to feel unable to empathize or assist individuals due to feeling overwhelmed and unable to feel compassion; this can be a separate condition from burnout, or can occur simultaneously.
Published in Chapter: Applying Self-Care to Strategically Prevent Burnout in Early Career K-12 Teachers; From: Supporting Early Career Teachers With Research-Based Practices
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Preparing for the Unexpected
The physical, emotional, and psychological remnants from helping others experiencing emotional distress or trauma.
Published in Chapter: Preparing for the Unexpected; From: Best Practices for Trauma-Informed School Counseling
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Reflections of Challenges and Resolutions in Fieldwork Research on Quality of Life of Cancer Patients: Counseling and Psychology
It can be defined as a stressful situation that leads to emotional turmoil by exposure and re-experience of difficult events.
Published in Chapter: Reflections of Challenges and Resolutions in Fieldwork Research on Quality of Life of Cancer Patients: Counseling and Psychology; From: Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research
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Chapter 7
The Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak Among Healthcare Workers: The Crucial Role of Psychological Functioning in Preventing Burnout
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A Critical Conversation About Mindfulness for School Leadership
The lessening of compassion over time due to overexposure to traumatic event(s).
Published in Chapter: A Critical Conversation About Mindfulness for School Leadership; From: Self-Care and Stress Management for Academic Well-Being
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Trauma-Informed Play Therapy Supervision: Play Therapy and Expressive Art Techniques for Supervisees With Traumatized Clients
The therapist’s emotional and physical exhaustion resulting from working with traumatized clients.
Published in Chapter: Trauma-Informed Play Therapy Supervision: Play Therapy and Expressive Art Techniques for Supervisees With Traumatized Clients; From: Techniques and Interventions for Play Therapy and Clinical Supervision
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Pediatric Healthcare Providers: Unique Challenges and Strategies to Improve Wellness
When empathetic individuals experience trauma symptoms due to their work with traumatized individuals.
Published in Chapter: Pediatric Healthcare Providers: Unique Challenges and Strategies to Improve Wellness; From: Mental Health and Wellness in Healthcare Workers: Identifying Risks, Prevention, and Treatment
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Hidden Occupational Hazards for Social Service Providers
Denotes those who struggle with being mentally exhausted by their exposure to other people’s difficulties. The term is interchangeable with secondary traumatic stress; however, compassion fatigue is usually reserved for laypersons, volunteers, and humanitarians who are not trained specifically for work in crisis situations.
Published in Chapter: Hidden Occupational Hazards for Social Service Providers; From: Invisible Victims and the Pursuit of Justice: Analyzing Frequently Victimized Yet Rarely Discussed Populations
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Narrative Therapy to Address Trauma for Emergency Medical Services and Firefighters
The gradual loss of the capacity to care for the suffering of others after repeated need to support others over time.
Published in Chapter: Narrative Therapy to Address Trauma for Emergency Medical Services and Firefighters; From: Mental Health Intervention and Treatment of First Responders and Emergency Workers
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