Empathy Fatigue: Healing the Mind, Body, and Spirit of Professional Counselors

144 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Human–AI collaboration enables more empathic conversations in text-based peer-to-peer mental health support (2022, background): “…in the absence of explicit training or feedback, the challenge of writing supportive responses persists over time and may even lead to a gradual decrease in empathy levels due to factors such as empathy fatigue 40–44 , as also observed during the course of our 30-min study (Supplementary Fig.”
Toward a Mechanism for Secondary Trauma Induction and Reduction: Reimagining a Theory of Secondary Traumatic Stress (2017, background): “In Native American teaching, this process is described as giving away a piece of yourself with each caring encounter until, at some point, you require healing (Stebnicki, 2007).”
A Self-Care Framework for Social Workers: Building a Strong Foundation for Practice (2013, background): “, 2010), a healthy lifestyle (Jordan, 2010), stress relief (brucato & neimeyer, 2009; sowa, May, & niles, 1994), and resiliency for the prevention of empathy fatigue (stebnicki, 2007).”