Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

If you work in a professional setting that deals with other people’s trauma day in and day out — at a hospital, in a psychologist’s office, or at a homeless shelter, for example — you may experience a ...

People whose professions lead to prolonged exposure to other people's trauma can be vulnerable to compassion fatigue, also known as secondary or vicarious trauma; they can experience acute symptoms ...

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 ...

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When tragedy takes the world stage, it can quickly become part of every conversation. But as much as it may feel imperative to stay fully engaged in the tragic updates and charged conversations about ...

This is the edited transcript of a talk Greater Good's Jeremy Adam Smith gave to the nurses of UC Berkeley Health Services on surviving compassion fatigue. I'm going to warn you: This is a somewhat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emotional depletion affects an estimated 60% of healthcare professionals, with experts warning that GPs need to be alert to ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Caregivers in Kentucky received much-needed support through a wellness workshop held at the C.M. Gatton Beaumont YMCA on Tuesday. The free workshop at the YMCA focused on ...