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Compassion fatigue: Psychotherapists’ chronic lack of self care.
Abstract
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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“which in turn is associated with a range of adverse outcomes including poor job satisfaction, absenteeism and poor patient care [27, 28].”
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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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- 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
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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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