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Compassion Fatigue
October 2005
Compiled by the Severson
National Information Center, a department of the Alliance for
Children and Families, 11700 W. Lake Park Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53224.
Phone: 414-359-1040 or 800-221-3726, extension 3615; Fax: 414-359-1074;
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INTERNET LINKS: [TOP]
Single copies of the following titles (only
those with article #s) are
also available from the
SEVERSON CENTER.Compassion Fatigue. 2000. #11425
A professional caregiver describing compassion fatigue and its effects.
Link.
Compassion Fatigue Articles. 2002. #11426
Victim Assistance Online Resource Center offers links to articles on
compassion fatigue.
Link.
Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue (CSF) Test. 2000. #11427
A printable copy of this self-test helps you estimate your compassion
status.
Link.
CF Self Test from ACE. 1994. #11428
America’s Continuing Education Network (ACE) provides this self-test for
compassion fatigue for help professionals.
Link.
Mental Health Response to Mass Violence
and Terrorism. 2004. #3191
A training manual to assist mental health providers in better serving
victims of terrorism and mass violence.
Link.
Overcoming Compassion Fatigue. 2004. #11431
Defines compassion fatigue and gives actions to prevent it.
Link.
Secondary Stress and the Professional Helper. 2001. #11432
Helpers exposed to trauma survivors experience secondary traumatic stress.
Link.
Traumatic Stress
References, archived papers, and measures of traumatic stress and secondary
traumatic stress.
Link.
Helping the Helpers
Families in Society provides social service staff, relief workers, and
crisis responders with useful, supportive information and insights into
victim care, as well as tools to deal with compassion fatigue, vicarious
trauma and burnout. Click on the link: "The Aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina: Helping the Helpers" at
www.familiesinsociety.org/
BOOKS:
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Compassion Fatigue: Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder in Those
Who Treat the Traumatized. Figley, Charles R., ed. Levittown: PA. : Brunner/Mazel
Psychosocial Stress Series No. 23, Brunner/Mazel, 1995.
Click here to review or order.
Crisis Intervention and Crisis Management. Thompson, Rosemary A. New York,
N.Y. : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.
Click here to review or order.
Secondary traumatic Stress: Self-Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers, &
Educators, 2nd. ed. Stamm, B. Hudnall, ed. Lutherville, Maryland : Sidran
Press, 1999.
Click here to review or order.
Treating Compassion Fatigue. Figley, Charles R., ed. New York, N.Y. :
Brunner-Routledge, 2002.
Click here to review or order.
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