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Compassion Fatigue
​Terminology & Definitions

Compassion Fatigue

  • The emotional and physical exhaustion that can affect helping professionals and caregivers over time

Primary Trauma

  • Direct exposure in line of duty (i.e., firefighter, first responder, EMT)
  • It is happening – to directly to YOU!

Secondary Trauma

  • Exposure to verbal descriptions, story telling, verbally, in writing or audio / video
  • You are not in an actual dangerous situation

Vicarious Trauma (VT)

  • Used to describe the profound shift that workers experience in their world view when they work with clients who have experienced trauma.
  • Helpers notice that the way they think about clients and the world is somehow changed by the cumulative process of repeated exposure

Burnout

  • The physical and emotional exhaustion that workers experience when they have low job satisfaction, feel powerless and overwhelmed at work.
  • Easily resolved by changing jobs

Toxic Workplace

  • Atmosphere of mistrust
  • Workers begin to cling to feelings of bitterness and sense of being wronged

Compassion Satisfaction

The amount of pleasure you derive from being able to do your work well.”
- Beth Hudnall Stamm
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