Tips for Disaster Responders: Understanding Compassion Fatigue

Explains the causes and signs of compassion fatigue, the burnout and secondary trauma a disaster response worker can experience. Offers self-care tips for coping with compassion fatigue and discusses compassion satisfaction as a protective tool.

Publisher: SAMHSA

Published: 2014 (4 pages)

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