Treating Compassion Fatigue

By Charles R. Figley. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Emergency Medical Services

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Compassion Fatigue Among Social Work Students in Field Placements (2011, background): “The individual may experience appetite changes, hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, memory loss, or become more accident prone (Figley, 2002; Hesse, 2002).”
Secondary Traumatic Stress in Social Workers Responding to Disasters: Reports from the Field (2007, background): “Social Workers Respond Less recognized are the damaging effects of secondary traumatic stress experienced by the mental health response staffs who are called to action in disaster mental health recovery efforts (Bride, 2007; Figley, 2002).”
Measuring Compassion Fatigue (2007, background): “Figley (1995, 1996, 2002) has also introduced compassion fatigue as a more ‘‘user-friendly’’ term to describe the phenomena of secondary traumatic stress.”
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).”
Understanding compassion capability (2011, background): “…from coding evidence of collective compassion in the unit (see question one) to explore how the everyday practices contributed to the collective compassion we observed (question two), and how they did so with seemingly no ‘compassion fatigue’ (Figley, 2002), or other ill-effects (question three).”
Professional Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Compassion Fatigue (2010, neutral): “Professional self-care is the utilization of skills and strategies by workers to maintain their own personal, familial, emotional, and spiritual needs while attending to the needs and demands of their clients (Figley, 2002b; Stamm, 1999).”
The Experiences of Staff Working With Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom: A Grounded Theory Exploration (2011, background): “There have been several attempts to conceptualize these possible positive effects including compassion satisfaction (Figley, 2002), vicarious posttraumatic growth (Arnold, Calhoun, Tedeschi, & Cann, 2005), adversarial growth (Linley, Joseph, & Loumidis, 2005) and most recently, vicarious resilience ”
Personal and Contextual Predictors of Mental Health Counselors' Compassion Fatigue and Burnout (2014, background): “Research on compassion fatigue emerged from observations of psychological problems among caregivers in the human service sector (Figley, 1995, 2002).”
Traumatic loss and major disasters: strengthening family and community resilience. (2007, background): “Loved ones often suffer from secondary traumatization and compassion fatigue (Figley, 2002) in learning about, and responding empathically to, a loved one’s trauma experiences, and also through ongoing contact when disruptive symptoms and harmful behaviors persist.”
Compassion fatigue and psychological distress among social workers: a validation study. (2006, background): “As Figley (2002a) has noted, “it is, therefore, up to all of us to elevate these issues to a greater level of awareness in the helping professions.”
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.”
Professional burnout, vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue: A review of theoretical terms, risk factors, and preventive methods for clinicians and researchers. (2010, neutral): “…in response to these risks have been overlooked issues in social work practice, training, and education (Courtois, 2002; Dunkley & Whelan, 2006; Figley 2002b); however, within the last two decades, the social services community has acknowledged the existence of these risks and the possibility…”
Intrapsychic Correlates of Professional Quality of Life: Mindfulness, Empathy, and Emotional Separation (2010, methodology): “Citing concerns that the secondary trauma label might be considered derogatory by some professionals, Figley (2002b) began using the term compassion fatigue, which he believed to be less stigmatizing.”
Fears of compassion: development of three self-report measures. (2011, background): “For example, research has shown that traumatized individuals, and this includes those who are vicariously traumatized, can experience ‘compassion fatigue’, associated with detachment from empathic and sympathetic emotions for the suffering of others (Figley, 2002; Rothschild, 2006).”