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Compassion fatigue: Psychotherapists’ chronic lack of self care.
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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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“Because of the emotional strain involved in caring for others, people in helping professions can often experience counselor burnout, compassion fatigue, and even Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder (STSD) as a result of setting aside their own self-care needs when helping others (Figley 2002; Collins and Long 2003; Linton and O'Halloran 2000; Bruns et al. 2014).”
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“Therapists suffering from compassion fatigue tend to make more mistakes with their clients (Figley 2002)”
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“According to Figley (2002a), when caregivers are regularly exposed to the suffering and agony of others, they may come to identify closely with them, resulting in secondary traumatization and emotional distress.”
BackgroundLedingham, M. D., Standen, P., Skinner, C., & Busch, R. (2019) · Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy · doi:10.1080/21507686.2019.1634600 · Cited by 12
Burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress in palliative care
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Developing Graduate Curricula Faithful to Professional Training and a Christian Worldview
Grauf-Grounds, C., Edwards, S., Macdonald, D., Quek, K. M., & Sellers, T. S. (2008) · Christian Higher Education · doi:10.1080/15363750802134931 · Cited by 12
“Compassion fatigue is a common and taxing result of openness (Figley, 2002; Grauf-Grounds & Edwards, 2007) since the therapist is open to experience the trauma of another’s life.”
BackgroundReceiving asylum seekers: Risks and resources of professionals
Gozzoli, C., & Leo, A. D. (2020) · Health Psychology Open · doi:10.1177/2055102920920312 · Cited by 12
“It is widely acknowledged in the existing literature that working with survivors of trauma can have a negative impact on professionals (Figley, 2002; McCann and Pearlman, 1990).”
BackgroundCountertransference and disaster psychiatry: from Buffalo Creek to 9/11
Lindy, J. D., & Lindy, D. C. (2004) · Psychiatric Clinics of North America · doi:10.1016/j.psc.2004.03.009 · Cited by 10
“Figley [8] borrows a military metaphor, combat fatigue, to describe the therapist’s dilemma in working intensively with victims and survivors, calling it compassion fatigue.”
BackgroundSabery, M., Hosseini, M., Tafreshi, M. Z., Mohtashami, J., & Ebadi, A. (2017) · Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal · doi:10.9741/23736658.1057 · Cited by 14
“Figley’s model (2002) is based on the assumption that individuals with high empathy who manifest a sympathetic and compassionate response to patients’ suffering are highly vulnerable to experiencing CF themselves (Figley, 2002).”
BackgroundMethodBefore They Crash and Burn (Out): A Compassion Fatigue Resilience Model
Schwanz, K. A., & Paiva-Salisbury, M. L. (2022) · Journal of Wellness · doi:10.55504/2578-9333.1100 · Cited by 11
“According to Figley (1995, 2002) compassion fatigue occurs when a helper repeatedly engages empathetically with clients and “takes on” some of their suffering [1, 2].”
BackgroundLluch-Sanz, C., Galiana, L., Tomás, J. M., Oliver, A., Vidal‐Blanco, G., & Sansó, N. (2022) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03958-3 · Cited by 15
“Within this framework, evidence suggests that compassion fatigue can lead to the development of psychological difficulties, physical and emotional exhaustion, an inability to provide compassion, and a reduced capacity to withstand the suffering of others (Figley, 1995, 2002).”
BackgroundChanging Kindergarten Teachers’ Mindsets Toward Children to Overcome Compassion Fatigue
Chen, F., Ge, Y., Xu, W., Yu, J., Zhang, Y., Xu, X., & Zhang, S. (2023) · Psychology Research and Behavior Management · doi:10.2147/prbm.s398622 · Cited by 13
“Generally, compassion fatigue refers to an individual’s reduced ability or interest in being empathic as a consequence of experiencing others’ traumatizing events.(8,9,14,15) Compassion fatigue is typically associated with physical symptoms (eg exhaustion, headaches, and sleep disturbance), behavioral symptoms (eg ang…”
BackgroundZeng, L., Liu, D., Liang, X., Li, L., Peng, Y., Jin, M., Xie, W., & Wang, J. (2023) · Journal of Nursing Management · doi:10.1155/2023/4362841 · Cited by 11
“For nurses, compassion fatigue is an occupational hazard, providing compassion to others is the primary premise, and indirect contact with traumatic events is the “cost of caring” [15, 20].”
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Compassion fatigue and it influencing factors among pediatric nurses: a cross-sectional survey
Zhong, Y., Li, S., Mo, B., Liao, Q.-H., Luo, W. G., Zhu, S., & Sun, L.-L. (2024) · BMC Psychology · doi:10.1186/s40359-024-02224-4 · Cited by 11
“According to the theory of compassion pressure and CF, the experience of compassion overload among emergency responders can trigger CF [4].”
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“Lack of support and feeling valued can result in ‘compassion fatigue’ (Figley, 2002).”
BackgroundInspiring Growth: A Counselling Framework for Industrial Psychology Practitioners
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Compassion Fatigue in Student Affairs Practitioners Working with Undocumented College Students
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“Figley (2002) defined detachment as the practitioner’s professional ability to remove themselves from their client’s distress and further argued that such distancing may mitigate the risk of compassion fatigue.”
BackgroundInfluentialRelationship between affective state and empathy in medical and psychology students
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“and emotionally-exhausted because of the burden empathy places upon them (Figley, 2002) or because of the common neurological underpinnings of empathy”
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“Compassion fatigue occurs due to a lack of compassion skills in the presence of high levels of suffering (Figley, 2002; Ruiz-Fernández et al., 2020), whereby compassion is understood as a sensitivity and receptiveness to suffering and a desire and intention to alleviate it (Brito-Pons et al.,…”
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Person-job congruence, compassion and recovery attitude in Community Mental Health Teams
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Burnout and the psychological impact of policing: trends and coping strategies
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Metadata
- 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
- OpenAlex
- W2093609854
- Cited by
- 1,614
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- 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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