Compassion fatigue: psychotherapists' chronic lack of self care.

By Charles R. Figley. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Vicarious Resilience, Vicarious Trauma, and Awareness of Equity in Trauma Work (2015, background): “It is hypothesized that empathic engagement is the primary conduit for the transmission of traumatic stress from client to therapist (Figley, 2002a, 2002b).”
Exploring the Impact of Trauma on Therapists: Vicarious Resilience and Related Concepts in Training (2010, background): “Figley (1998) speaks of vicarious trauma as a term describing the transmission of traumatic stress”
Empathy Fatigue: Healing the Mind, Body, and Spirit of Professional Counselors (2007, positive): “Because empathy is a valuable form of intense listening that should be facilitated by the trauma counselor (Jackson, 1992), the helper unconsciously makes him or herself available to the absorption of the client’s traumatic story (Figley, 2002).”
Empathy, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout in Police Officers Working With Rape Victims (2017, background): “…the potential impact of working with traumatised individuals, such as a reduction in the capacity or interest in bearing the suffering of others (Figley, 2002), physical and emotional exhaustion and a pronounced reduction in the ability to feel empathy and compassion for others (Elwood et al.,…”
Barriers to Psychologists Seeking Mental Health Care (2013, background): “Compassion fatigue compromises one’s empathic ability to recognize pain in others, motivation to respond to it, and the psychotherapist’s ability to experience the painful emotions of the client (Figley, 2002).”
Organizational Impacts on the Secondary Traumatic Stress of Social Workers Assisting Family Violence or Sexual Assault Survivors (2011, background): “Researchers have demonstrated that practitioners can also be indirectly traumatized as they empathically engage with trauma survivors (Figley, 2002; Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995).”
Compassion Fatigue and Countertransference: Two Different Concepts (2010, background): “But the prescription for compassion fatigue, which Figley (2002a) refers to as Jane’s problem, would be neither supervision nor psychotherapy.”
Six domains of self-care: Attending to the whole person (2019, background): “arise from practicing empathy and compassion (Figley, 2002; Newell & Nelson-Gardell, 2014; Stamm, 2010), and that would appear to relate to the emotional exhaustion component of burnout.”
Professional Supervision: A Workforce Retention Strategy for Social Work? (2012, background): “emotional impact of the work (Figley, 2002; Guy et al., 2008), effective supervisors”
Shared Trauma: When the Professional is Personal (2012, background): “…been variously described using several well-known concepts, including vicarious traumatization (McCann and Pearlman 1990; Pearlman and MacIan 1995; Pearlman and Saakvitne 1995), compassion fatigue (Figley 1995, 2002), secondary traumatic stress (Stamm 2002), and burnout (Leiter and Maslach 1988).”
Association of Personal Distress With Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction Among Clinical Social Workers (2013, background): “Empathy has been viewed as essential to effective helping but is potentially a “doubleedged sword” (Decety, 2011; Figley, 2002a), placing social workers and other helping professionals at risk for burnout and compassion fatigue.”
Reconsidering Self Care (2016, background): “Likewise, Figley (2002) suggests this kind of disengagement is preventative of the emotional exhaustion of burnout and purports a worker must make ‘‘a conscious, rational effort to recognize that she or he must let go of the thoughts, feelings, and sensations associated with the sessions with the…”
Self-Care Practices and Perceived Stress Levels Among Psychology Graduate Students (2012, background): “Furthermore, stress and burnout among psychology graduate students can have a negative impact on their ability to provide adequate clinical care (Figley, 2002; Wicks, 2008).”
Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Vicarious Traumatization: a Qualitative Review and Research Agenda (2019, background): “The “fatigue etiological” perspective, based in work by Figley (2002), is an extension of the resiliency approach in that it describes the process of empathy-based stress responses.”
School Counselors’ Perceived Stress, Burnout, and Job Satisfaction (2017, background): “Burnout also may be the result of secondary experiencing of traumatic events (Figley, 2002; Stamm, 2010) or may be, among school counselors, due to the ongoing empathetic position they hold with their students (Maslach, 2003; Stebnicki, 2008).”
Practicing What We Teach: Trauma-Informed Educational Practice (2015, background): “In the past two decades, clinical observations and empirical reports have established that indirect exposure to traumatic material is associated with high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among social workers (Bride, 2007) and those working with child maltreatment (Bride, Jones, & Mac”
Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Social Support (2011, background): “STS (see Figley 2002a ), but little research has been conducted on this topic.”