Compassion fatigue used to be a problem that was most commonly seen among health care professionals. Because their work puts them in situations where they commonly see or hear about ongoing and ...

Anyone who works in a “helping profession” can experience compassion fatigue — physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, even first responders. Every specialty is vulnerable, from palliative ...

When tragic events happen, no matter how far away from us they are, it’s hard not to pay attention. Many of us empathise with the people in these situations and wonder how we can get involved, or if ...

Have you been feeling burned out at work lately? Does your job involve high degrees of stress and trauma? Often, we have compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma without even knowing it. Amid the COVID ...

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more astounding miracle than walking on water." The word she used for meeting the ...

For decades, medical schools and hospital systems have warned physicians about “compassion fatigue” — the idea that caring deeply for patients eventually drains you. But a growing body of research ...

Sandy Bruno, youth and family coordinator at Comfort Zone Camp, a national nonprofit bereavement camp for grieving families, experienced compassion fatigue in the aftermath of her husband's death. She ...

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is “a more astounding miracle than walking on water.” The word she used for meeting the ...