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Compassion fatigue: Psychotherapists’ chronic lack of self care.

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

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Psychotherapists who work with the chronic illness tend to disregard their own self-care needs when focusing on the needs of clients. The article discusses the concept of compassion fatigue, a form of caregiver burnout among psychotherapists and contrasts it with simple burnout and countertransference. It includes a multi-factor model of compassion fatigue that emphasizes the costs of caring, empathy, and emotional investment in helping the suffering. The model suggests that psychotherapists that limiting compassion stress, dealing with traumatic memories, and more effectively managing case loads are effective ways of avoiding compassion fatigue. The model also suggests that, to limit compassion stress, psychotherapists with chronic illness need to development methods for both enhancing satisfaction and learning to separate from the work emotionally and physically in order to feel renewed. A case study illustrates how to help someone with compassion fatigue.

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Authors: Figley, C. R.
Affiliations: Florida State University (US)
Corresponding author: Figley, Charles R.
ORCID: Figley, Charles R.
Venue: Journal of Clinical Psychology
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2002-10-29
Volume: 58
Issue: 11
Pages: 1433-1441
ISSN: 0021-9762 (ISSN-L)
1097-4679
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.10090
OpenAlex: W2093609854
Cited by: 1,614
References: 13
Citations by year: 2026: 155 · 2025: 138 · 2024: 108 · 2023: 157 · 2022: 115 · 2021: 153 · 2020: 112 · 2019: 94 · 2018: 76 · 2017: 82 · 2016: 74 · 2015: 53 · 2014: 63 · 2013: 62 · 2012: 42
FWCI: 5.97
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations: Journal of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Occupational Health and Burnout
Keywords: compassion fatigue, psychotherapists, self-care, caregiver burnout, countertransference, chronic disease, traumatic memory, empathy, burnout
MeSH terms: Burnout, Professional, Chronic Disease, Countertransference, Empathy, Fatigue, Humans, Models, Psychological, Psychotherapy, Self Care

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