New book aims to help care and service providers reclaim their calling CENTER CITY, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--While the COVID-19 pandemic brought awareness of professional burnout to all industries, the ...

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 ...

After serving in the Vietnam War, Charles Figley became interested in the concept of trauma—not only the lasting psychological wounds that people experienced after living through traumatic events ...

Registered nurse Chrissie Burkhiser cleans an emergency room suite after treating a COVID-19 patient at Scotland County Hospital Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, in Memphis, Missouri. Overexposure to physical ...

Compassion fatigue can be common among professional caregivers, such as hospice staff, veterinarians and other medical providers. However, compassion fatigue can also affect the general public, ...

Armstrong Williams takes on the news of the week and asks the questions you want answered. Don’t miss our weekly town hall by GOOD MORNING WASHINGTON TOPICS: WASHINGTON (ABC7) — 2020 has certainly ...

Truly caring for or about someone can be exhausting — hence the term compassion fatigue. The phrase was first coined in 1992 by a nurse, Carla Joinson, to describe the physical, emotional, and ...

Teachers' jobs involve more than just teaching the required curriculum. A significant part of their role includes providing emotional support to their students And with many students facing mental ...

This study, which was funded by a Refinement Grant from AWI, examined the impact of nonhuman primate social housing status on compassion fatigue in laboratory animal care professionals, who are at an ...

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