Treating Compassion Fatigue

Sometimes called secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue describes the traumatic effect and the toll that helping those suffering with PTSD can have on the helping professioal. The objective of this book is to aid the identification, assessment, and treatment of compassion fatigue and this is done over eleven chapters, each from distinguished researchers in the field.

Charles Figley, Ph.D., is a pioneer in the field of trauma studies. He is the Director of the Traumatology Institute and the founding Director of the Green Cross Projects in the School of Social Work at Florida State University. He is the founding president of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, the founding editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress and editor of Traumatology. Among Dr. Figley's numerous publications are TheTraumatology of Grieving (1998) and the benchmark work, Compassion Fatigue: Coping With Secondary TraumaticStress Disorder in Those Who Treat the Traumatized (1995).

In recent years, much has occurred in the field of traumatology, including the widening of the audience and the awareness of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). This book from celebrated traumatology pioneer Charles Figley, further clarifies the concept of compassion fatigue through theory, research, and treatment. The basic thesis of this book is the identification, assessment, and treatment of compassion fatigue and this is done over eleven chapters, each from distinguished researchers in the field.

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