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Compassion Fatigue Online Bibliography
October 2005

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Compassion Fatigue: An Expert Interview. Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health, 8:2. 2005. Posted October 17, 2005. #301
Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina take a heavy emotional and physical toll not only on their primary victims, but also on the overworked professionals and volunteers who rush in to help in the aftermath. Dr. Charles Figley, Director of the Florida State University Traumatology Institute and President and Founder of the Green Cross Foundation talks about the frequently overlooked trauma and stress experienced by those in rescue and help operations.

Compassion Fatigue and Psychological Distress Among Social Workers: A Validation Study. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76:1, January 2006. #12599.
This article looks at assessing the psychometric properties of a compassion fatigue scale and examines the scale's predictive validity in a multivariate model.

Compassion Fatigue: Seeking Hidden Wholeness. Counselor, 7:1, February 2006. #12124
The helping professions risk losing many skilled and compassionate healers at the height of their catalytic powers because the life has gone out of their work.

Counselor Compassion Fatigue Scale (CCFS). Counselor, 7:1, February 2006. #12123

Defeating Compassion Fatigue. 2002. #11429
Charities describe ways they help prevent employees from burning out.

Overcoming Compassion Fatigue. 2000. #11430
When practicing medicine feels more like labor than a labor of love, take steps to heal the healer.

Secondary Traumatic Stress and Vicarious Trauma: A Validational Study. 2002. #2710
Vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress or compassion fatigue both describe effect of working with traumatized persons on therapists.



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