Talk:Compassion fatigue

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Additions
Wanted to note: the link at footnote 2, to "Compassion Fatigue - Because You Care" (PDF), is broken. Not only that, on this page there's another note from 2012, 7 years ago, saying the exact same thing. So one of the major sources for this article has been unavailable at that link for years.2600:1702:AE0:CC70:E40F:DC1C:CF8A:B727 (talk) 17:15, 7 March 2019 (UTC) I found another source for this information and will edit to make it accurate-https://www.cba.org/Publications-Resources/CBA-Practice-Link/Work-Life-Balance/Health-Wellness/Compassion-Fatigue-in-the-Legal-Profession ContributorAE (talk) 01:41, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello everyone working on this page. Would it be alright for me to make some additions possibly. I am new to Wikipedia and am a student. I am working on a class project, and wanted to check in before changing or adding things. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SJP-Chaudhary (talk • contribs) 04:49, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking, but you don't have to. Go ahead, and be bold! --Robert Daoust (talk) 15:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

I want to add to the self-care section of the article. My focus will be on some methods of self-care that relate to compassion fatigue. Here are the articles that I wish to use: Hernandez-Wolfe, P. (2018). Vicarious Resilience: A Comprehensive Review *. Revista De Estudios Sociales, (66), 9-17.

Self-awareness combined with self-care might help to alleviate the impact of vicarious trauma (compassion fatigue).

Barnett, J., Baker, E., Elman, N., Schoener, G., & Roberts, Michael C. (2007). In Pursuit of Wellness: The Self-Care Imperative. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38(6), 603-612.

In order to be of the best benefit for clients, practitioners must maintain a state of psychological well-being

Orlinsky, D., Schofield, M., Schroder, T., & Kazantzis, N. (2011). Utilization of Personal Therapy by Psychotherapists: A Practice-Friendly Review and a New Study. Journal Of Clinical Psychology, 67(8), 828-842.

There is a prevalence of therapists and others in the helping profession who use therapy for self-care

Newsome, Sandy, Christopher, John Chambers, Dahlen, Penny, & Christopher, Suzanne. (2006). Teaching Counselors Self-Care through Mindfulness Practices. Teachers College Record, 108(9), 1881-1900.

Students therapeutic relationships and counseling skills were positively impacted by the use of mindfulness exercises (conscious relaxation exercises like yoga and meditation) as a self-care practice.

Patsiopoulos, A., Buchanan, M., & Roberts, Michael C. (2011). The Practice of Self-Compassion in Counseling: A Narrative Inquiry. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 42(4), 301-307.

Self-compassion as a self-care method is beneficial for both clients and counselors.

Coaston, Susannah C. (2017). Self-Care through Self-Compassion: A Balm for Burnout. Professional Counselor, 7(3), 285-297.

Counselors use of self-compassion may lessen experiences of vicarious trauma that the counselor might experience through hearing clients stories.

Neff, K. D., Kirkpatrick, K. L., & Rude, S. S. (2007). Self-compassion and adaptive psychological functioning. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 139-154. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2006.03.004

Some counselors who use self-compassion as part of their self-care regime have had higher instances of psychological functioning.

Merriman, J. (2015). Enhancing counselor supervision through compassion fatigue education. Journal of Counseling and Development, 93(3), 370-378.

Unaddressed compassion fatigue may decrease practitioners ability to effectively help their clients.

Sun, Jessie. "Mindfulness in Context: A Historical Discourse Analysis." Contemporary Buddhism 15.2 (2014): 1-22. Web. Mindfulness therefore involves contemplating the four domains of the body, feelings, states of mind, and experiential phenomena (dhamma), and the purpose of the practice is the extinction of suffering and the attainment of nirvana.

Cultural implications of the practice of mindfulness, according to Buddhist tradition is to release a person from “suffering” and to also come to a state consciousness. Mindfulness utilizes the path to consciousness through the deliberate practice of engaging “the body, feelings, states of mind, and experiential phenomena (dharma)”. Counselors might use mindfulness practices as a self-care practice. Processing their experiences through body work (somatic practices) States of mind-(psychotherapy practices) Feelings (emotion focused practices) Experiential phenomena (emotion focused therapy) Shindanacleange (talk) 16:46, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

What
What's an animal giver? It's is listed in the professionals at risk section at the end of the article. Jane Bond (talk) 22:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

An animal giver is someone that works in an animal shelter,rescue ect (Dirrtypittie (talk) 02:49, 27 July 2008 (UTC))

It should be "animal care" workers. Also, all links to the PDF from St. Petersburg Bar Association Magazine. Retrieved 2007-02, are no longer working. They point to a scammy website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.101.213.96 (talk) 18:03, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

The defintion of compassion fatigue is inconsistent with the literature. Wikipedia defined burnout rather than compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is very similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) except the recipient experienced the trauma indirectly (e.g., after hearing about somebody else's traumatic experience) instead of directly.

128.43.207.254 (talk) 17:45, 23 June 2009 (UTC) D.L. Messervey, PhD

Missing citations
Is this needed? All of the facts I have stated here I know to be true and did not need any research. Or would are citations needed to provide evidence to to others?

Country Captain Chicken 15:46, 23 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I've done a little trimming: I think that this article needs a lot of work before it meets WP:VERIFY and WP:NPOV. -- The Anome 16:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, citations/references are needed. -- backburner001 16:32, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

That seems to have got the ball rolling: thank you, fellow contributors! Now, this article needs a thorough rewrite, and supporting refs for all the assertions, and soon we may have a good start for a proper article on this subject. -- The Anome 12:53, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Parts of this article seem to have been copied word for word from the website article "Compassion Fatigue: An Introduction" by Charles R. Figley http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/cmpfatig.html so it will need to be rewritten. BoundaryRider (talk) 00:59, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Some copy editing, but a lot needs to be done.
This article is interesting. I've done some copy editing, basically reducing the number of categories and sub-categories, a number of which were unwarranted.

Clearly, someone who has a systematic break-down of this problem ought to be doing some work on it. As it stands, the article, factually speaking, is floating on nothing but air. More hard facts and systematic analysis are needed.

Good luck. Cheers, --MILH 01:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Why the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake reference?
Why are we refering to the 2004 earthquake when the term and the phenomenon clearly predate this? Either the second paragraph should be excised or it should follow the third paragraph on usuage of the term in the 90's. Maybe something like:


 * "Compassion fatigue" was first used in the early 90's by news media in the United States to describe the public's lack of patience (cite BTW). Later it was used to describe international response to large scale disasters or conflicts like (oh, I seem to recall it in reference to Somalia and the Congo in the 90's, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, etc)."

As it stands, the earthquake references appear out of place. And of course, everything is uncited. -- KarlHallowell 20:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I think it should be deleted - the term has been in popular usage before this - e.g. it appears in the lyrics to Midnight Oil's "Say Your Prayers", which was released in 2000. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.58.114 (talk) 12:27, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Differentiating between burnout and cynicism
I think there needs to be some differentiation between the media/public usage(s) of the concept of compassion fatigue (vs. the individual ones); it sounds more like cynicism, rather than depression/hopelessness/etc. Historian932 (talk) 07:03, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Compassion fatigue in charitable giving
The current article section seems to take into account only domestic donating (mainly inside the U.S.), while the term actually seems to apply a lot more to donations to be used in other countries. When there's no simple overall narrative (i.e. single natural disaster or comprehensible catastrophe) to explain a humanitarian situation, and people instead perceive that the situation was created by convoluted politics between many opposing groups -- or when people don't have a feeling that their donations will help in restoring the situation to some kind of relative normality, but instead will be used for long-term subsistence maintenance of those displaced or impoverished by ongoing political disputes -- then donations for relief in foreign countries often fall off... AnonMoos (talk) 22:30, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

3 wrong links
Please, check these advertises links Number 1, 2 and 10 with former links inscriptions. Seems to be commercial malevolence... --Schnäggli (talk) 09:54, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Disaster pornography?
Redirects to this page, but "disaster pornography" isn't mentioned in the article or the talk page. So, what's the connection? MonoTrouble (talk) 21:48, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * You are quite right, and I changed the redirect.  Lova Falk     talk   09:01, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

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I fixed the link to reference 2 "Professional Quality of Life" since it was broken and updated the name by adding "ProQOL" in parenthesis at the end. Aphill66 (talk) 17:30, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

New neuroscientist research suggests another look onto it
Recent neuroscientific studies suggest that it is empathy that leads to fatigue and not compassion. Contrary, compassion can prevent fatigue and burnout. I amended the article accordingly. For academic sources see:
 * 1) Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World, author= M. Ricard, chapter IV, chapter-url: http://info-buddhism.com/Empathy-Compassion-Neuroscience-Ricard-Altruism.html, pages=56–64, year=2015, publisher: Brown and Company, isbn: 978-0316208246 and here:
 * 2) Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training, Olga M. Klimecki, Susanne Leiberg, Matthieu Ricard, and Tania Singer, Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Kt66 (talk) 15:31, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Compassion minus Empathy = Sympathy = Passive Compassion. 👌 Good link. 117.213.21.83 (talk) 13:43, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Planned Additions to This Article
Hello! I am a nursing student looking to add to/edit an article on Wikipedia based on current evidence based practice. This is my current plan:

-There are many direct quotes, some even paragraphs long, that I will edit and condense to make it more encyclopedic

-Some statements are not cited that need to be so I will look for citations/put in "citation needed".

-Addition of research regarding resiliency training for nurses to prevent compassion fatigue and help combat current fatigue. My source: Potter, P., Pion, S., & Gentry, J. E. (2015). Compassion fatigue resiliency training: The experience of facilitators. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 46(2), 83-88. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.gvsu.edu/10.3928/00220124-20151217-03 This trains nurses to adopt self-regulation, intentionality, perceptual maturation, connection, and self-care.

-Defining some of the consequences of compassion fatigue in the health care setting, including an inability to engage in an empathetic relationship, which impedes the health care professional from establishing a trusting relationship, along with the physical and psychological effects. My source: Sorenson, Claire, PhD,R.N.C.-N.I.C., C.C.R.N., Bolick, Beth, DNP, ARNP, PPCNP-BC,C.P.N.P.-A.C., F.A.A.N., Wright, Karen,PhD., N.N.P.-B.C., & Hamilton, Rebekah, PhD, RN,C.N.L., F.A.A.N. (2017). An evolutionary concept analysis of compassion fatigue. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 49(5), 557-563. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.gvsu.edu/10.1111/jnu.12312 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Williann1 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Underrepresentation of other occupations
I noticed in reading this article that the section on how different healthcare professionals experience compassion fatigue is quite lengthy. This is great, but the section on lawyers is so much shorter it seems like underrepresentation. I would also like to suggest that other occupations be discussed as well such as law enforcement or social workers. Fallingskies17 (talk) 01:52, 3 December 2017 (UTC) I agree that the other areas are underrepresented. I plan to add another section which discusses compassion fatigue in Higher Education, particularly, with a student affairs focus. This group often sees student trauma and crisis and can be greatly impacted by compassion fatigue.ContributorAE (talk) 20:26, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Compassion fatigue and Vicarious traumatization
I cannot distinguish Vicarious traumatization from Compassion fatigue, in a sense where they would be 2 naturally distinct phenomena. Rather, I tend to think that researchers of 2 domains identified more or less the same phenomenon, let us call it Helper Traumatism, which led two 2 different names.

Would it be possible to regroup those 2 articles into a single one with an appropriate name? (Helper Traumatism would be my initial choice.) With appropriate redirects. And with, if needed, specialised article sections to present the studies and results made under the 2 names. (I posted this question in the talk pages of both present articles.) denis &#39;spir&#39; (talk) 08:16, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

plagiarized material
This text is copied directly from "An early use of the term was in a 1981 US document on immigration policy. In the early 1990s the news media in the United States used compassion fatigue to describe the public's lack of patience, or perhaps simply the editors' lack of patience, with "the homeless problem". It had previously been presented as an anomaly that had only existed for a short time and could presumably be solved. The term was also used in 1992 when Joinson used the term in a nursing magazine to describe nurses who deal with hospital emergencies." This text is also not a reliable source as it is a religious book published by a non-academic publisher. I am removing the text until a suitable source can be found. There may be other examples of plagiarism in this article as well. AnaSoc (talk) 00:20, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review
After reading the page the main issue with the writing is its vagueness. You have a lot of sociology/medical/psychology terminology that needs further explanation for your audience members not familiar with social-emotional language i.e compassion, compassion fatigue, chronic tedium, and the difference between care and help (if there is a difference between care and help).

I would not give lawyers' experience with STS its own heading. You currently do not have enough information in that section to validate it standing on its own. I would include the lawyers information underneath the healthcare professions heading, but change the healthcare professions heading's name to be more inclusive of other professions you will list.

The prevention portion of your page is not balanced with the rest of the sections in your article. You need more information in the prevention section. I would not divide the prevention section into subheadings, I would include everything together underneath the heading "Prevention".

"Healthcare professionals experiencing compassion fatigue may find it difficult to continue doing their jobs. They can be exposed to trauma while trying to deal with compassion fatigue, potentially pushing them out of their career field. If they decide to stay, it can negatively affect the therapeutic relationship they have with patients because it depends on forming an empathetic, trusting relationship that could be difficult to make in the midst of compassion fatigue. Because of this, healthcare institutions are placing increased importance on supporting their employees emotional needs so they can better care for patients.[18]" This was very confusing to read. I've already suggested before that you need to almost over explain to Wiki audiences sociology/medical/psychology terminology. For example, what is a therapeutic relationship, what is empathy? Do all healthcare professionals have "patients"? Therapists and social workers have clients, teachers have students, please use more inclusive language if you are going to cover a term that affects all helping professions, or narrow your topic down to compassion fatigue in a particular field.

I think including more about the 1950's study of compassion fatigue with nurses would benefit your article. You need to work on how you transition your sources into your writing. The transitions you currently have are awkward.

You have a great topic and skeleton, just needs a little more work. Happy Editing! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danithecounselor (talk • contribs) 16:49, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Grammar and punctuation
Hi, I'm new! In reading through this article, I noticed a few spots where the grammar could have been worded better. The punctuation could also use another look. It was mostly small things, like a comma not being in the right place, a colon used in place of a semi-colon, things like that. It would read a bit easier if those things were cleaned up. Some of the sentences under the history section were confusing and could probably be written more concise.

Arunataru (talk) 00:41, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Compassion Fade
While reviewing this article I noticed a few small things that could be improved on. There are a few minor grammatical errors need to be fixed. More importantly than that, I noticed that compassion fade is thrown in at the end of the article. While I think it is great to differentiate between compassion fatigue and compassion fade, maybe there is a better way to include this in the article. Or compassion fade could be added onto more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Breepitt (talk • contribs) 03:06, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Caregivers
Hello, while looking at the section covering caregivers, I did not see a definition of a caregiver and/or examples of one. Should that be added? -Isah1998 (talk) 02:25, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

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