Compassion fatigue, the Glossary
Compassion fatigue is an evolving concept in the field of traumatology.[1]
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53 relations: Alexander Mitscherlich (psychologist), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, American Psychological Association, Bob Geldof, Bystander effect, Caregiver, Caregiver stress, Cognitive behavioral therapy, Cognitive bias, Compassion fade, Compassion fatigue in journalism, Countertransference, Desensitization (psychology), Dialectical behavior therapy, Diffusion of responsibility, Donor fatigue, Emotional exhaustion, Emotional labor, Emporia Gazette, Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, Firefighter, Health care, Health care provider, Journalist, Live Aid, Major depressive disorder, Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Moral injury, Norman Cousins, Occupational burnout, Palliative care, Paramedic, Police officer, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Primary care, Professional boundaries, Psychological trauma, Red Deer Advocate, Reuters, Self-licensing, Social support, Social work, Stress (biology), Stress management, Student affairs, Substance abuse, Suffering, Suicide, Teacher, ... Expand index (3 more) »
Alexander Mitscherlich (psychologist)
Alexander Harbord Mitscherlich (20 September 1908 – 26 June 1982) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering orthopsychiatry.
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American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world.
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Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist.
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Bystander effect
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in the presence of other people. Compassion fatigue and bystander effect are moral psychology.
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Caregiver
A caregiver, carer or support worker is a paid or unpaid person who helps an individual with activities of daily living.
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Caregiver stress
Caregiver syndrome or caregiver stress is a condition that strongly manifests exhaustion, anger, rage, or guilt resulting from unrelieved caring for a chronically ill patient.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression and anxiety disorders.
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Cognitive bias
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment.
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Compassion fade
Compassion fade is the tendency to experience a decrease in empathy as the number of people in need of aid increase. Compassion fatigue and Compassion fade are moral psychology and social psychology.
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Compassion fatigue in journalism
Compassion fatigue (CF) is an evolving concept in the field of traumatology.
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Countertransference
Countertransference, in psychotherapy, refers to a therapist's redirection of feelings towards a patient or becoming emotionally entangled with them.
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Desensitization (psychology)
In psychology, desensitization is a treatment or process that diminishes emotional responsiveness to a negative, aversive, or positive stimulus after repeated exposure.
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Dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy that began with efforts to treat personality disorders and interpersonal conflicts.
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Diffusion of responsibility
Diffusion of responsibility is a sociopsychological phenomenon whereby a person is less likely to take responsibility for action or inaction when other bystanders or witnesses are present. Compassion fatigue and Diffusion of responsibility are moral psychology.
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Donor fatigue
Donor fatigue is a phenomenon in which people no longer donate to charities, although they have in the past.
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Emotional exhaustion
Emotional exhaustion is symptom of burnout, a chronic state of physical and emotional depletion that results from excessive work or personal demands, or continuous stress.
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Emotional labor
Emotional labor is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job. Compassion fatigue and emotional labor are emotion.
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Emporia Gazette
The Emporia Gazette is a daily newspaper in Emporia, Kansas.
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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy that is a recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, but remains controversial within the psychological community.
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Firefighter
A firefighter (or fire fighter) is a first responder trained in firefighting, primarily to control and extinguish fires that threaten life and property, as well as to rescue persons from confinement or dangerous situations.
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Health care
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
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Health care provider
A health care provider is an individual health professional or a health facility organization licensed to provide health care diagnosis and treatment services including medication, surgery and medical devices.
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Journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.
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Live Aid
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.
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Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
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Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen
Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (née Nielsen; 17 July 1917 – 12 June 2012) or the "Grande Dame of German Psychoanalysis" as she was often referred to as, was a German psychoanalyst who focused mainly on the themes of feminism, female sexuality, and the national psychology of post-war Germany.
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Maslach Burnout Inventory
The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is a psychological assessment instrument comprising 22 symptom items pertaining to occupational burnout.
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Moral injury
A moral injury is an injury to an individual's moral conscience and values resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression on the part of themselves or others. Compassion fatigue and moral injury are moral psychology.
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Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
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Occupational burnout
The ICD-11 of the World Health Organization (WHO) describes occupational burnout as an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress that hasn't been successfully managed, with symptoms characterized by "feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy." It is classified as a mismatch between the challenges of work and a person's mental and physical resources, but is not recognized by the WHO as a medical condition.
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Palliative care
Palliative care (derived from the Latin root, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses.
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Paramedic
A paramedic is a healthcare professional trained in the medical model, whose main role has historically been to respond to emergency calls for medical help outside of a hospital.
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Police officer
A police officer (also called a policeman (male) or policewoman (female), a cop, an officer, or less commonly a constable) is a warranted law employee of a police force.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
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Primary care
Primary care is a model of care that supports first-contact, accessible, continuous, comprehensive and coordinated person-focused care.
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Professional boundaries
Professional boundaries are an important consideration in the relationship between any professional and their client. Compassion fatigue and professional boundaries are interpersonal relationships.
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Psychological trauma
Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences.
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Red Deer Advocate
The Red Deer Advocate is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
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Self-licensing
Self-licensing (also moral self-licensing, moral licensing, or licensing effect) is a term used in social psychology and marketing to describe the subconscious phenomenon whereby increased confidence and security in one's self-image or self-concept tends to make that individual worry less about the consequences of subsequent immoral behavior and, therefore, more likely to make immoral choices and act immorally. Compassion fatigue and self-licensing are moral psychology.
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Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network.
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Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being.
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Stress (biology)
Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.
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Stress management
Stress management consists of a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of improving everyday functioning.
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Student affairs
Student affairs, student support, or student services is the department or division of services and support for student success at institutions of higher education to enhance student growth and development.
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Substance abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is the use of a drug in amounts or by methods that are harmful to the individual or others.
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Suffering
Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness or aversion, possibly associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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Teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
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Terminal illness
Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient.
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Traumatology
In medicine, traumatology (from Greek trauma, meaning injury or wound) is the study of wounds and injuries caused by accidents or violence to a person, and the surgical therapy and repair of the damage.
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Vicarious traumatization
Vicarious trauma (VT) is a term invented by Irene Lisa McCann and Laurie Anne Pearlman that is used to describe how work with traumatized clients affects trauma therapists.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue
Also known as Disaster fatigue, Empathy burnout, News fatigue, Secondary traumatic stress, Sympathy fatigue.