33 Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Fatigue

As professionals in the helping field; we are encouraged to carry hope for our families with an empathetic heart without being educated about the cost of caring. This training will define Compassion Fatigue and compare its symptoms to burnout. It will encourage participants to take a holistic look at stressors in their life and examine how those stressors impact the empathic hearts.

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Taken from Family-Focused Practice, R. (2018, July 18). C14 Recognizing the Need to Heal: Compassion Fatigue and How It Relates to the Empathic Worker. OER Commons. Retrieved January 03, 2023, from https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/46749-c14-recognizing-the-need-to-heal-compassion-fatigu.

 

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