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Stress, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout
Published in Lisa Zammit, Georgeanne Schopp, Relational Care, 2022
Lisa Zammit, Georgeanne Schopp
Stress is necessary to life and is present all the time. In today’s general psychology, the term stress is synonymous with negative influences (Le Fevre et al., 2006). Conversely, positive stress, eustress, fosters creativity, productivity, and imagination. Too much stress, known as distress, negatively affects physical health and well-being. Hans Selye defines stress as “a non-specific response of the body to a demand” (Szabo et al., 2012, p. 472). He describes the Body’s reaction to stress in three stages: 1) alarm, 2) resistance, and 3) exhaustion. Distress symptoms are found in Compassion Fatigue and Burnout. Resilience mitigates the damage.
Working within a Team
Published in Danielle L. Terry, Michelle E. Mlinac, Pamela L. Steadman-Wood, Providing Home Care for Older Adults, 2020
Pamela L. Steadman-Wood, Kimberly E. Hiroto, Harriette Grooh
Bearing witness to situations often encountered in home visits (e.g., abject poverty, suspected abuse, failure to thrive) can elicit sincere empathy, a sense of helplessness, and frustration with systems that struggle to support patient needs. Given their training, MH providers are well suited to address the risks for burnout and compassion fatigue. Acknowledging the problem can validate team members’ struggles and humanity. Highlighting ways the team positively impacted the patient and family can help increase the team’s self-efficacy, and explaining how to manage difficult personalities may improve team members’ communication strategies. Similarly, encouraging and modeling self-care and help-seeking may support team members struggling with compassion fatigue. Other strategies may include protecting time to discuss the team’s frustrations and struggles, celebrating moments of success, and offering support during times of emotional pain.
Promoting staff resilience
Published in Alison Brodrick, Emma Williamson, Listening to Women After Childbirth, 2020
Alison Brodrick, Emma Williamson
The concept of compassion fatigue is attributed to Figley (1995), who wanted to develop a model that could predict the onset of compassion fatigue in psychotherapists. Figley (1995) proposed that part of the therapist’s empathic response to the clients suffering involves projecting themselves into the client’s perspective. The emotional energy that this requires causes compassion stress which if not contained or recognised can lead to compassion fatigue. There is some criticism that this is very linear and somewhat fatalistic view of empathic caring as it implies that compassion fatigue is almost an inevitable component of providing empathic care, furthermore its widespread adoption to nursing and midwifery has been questioned (Sinclair et al, 2017). More recently, compassion fatigue in midwives has been linked to what has been coined a ‘moral distress’ (Ledoux, 2015) to describe workplace stressors occurring when staff are unable to give the care they value and believe is necessary. This in turn can cause feelings of guilt and concern for the quality of care afforded to a client (Ledoux, 2015). In a meta-synthesis exploring the evidence around compassion fatigue in nursing Nolte et al (2017) found that compassion-fatigued nurses tended to distance themselves from others including any emotional attachment to patients as a way of coping.
Health professionals’ perception of social stigma and its relationship to compassion satisfaction, burnout, compassion fatigue, and intention to leave the profession during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 2022
K. Tari Selçuk, D. Avci, M. Ataç
Compassion fatigue, which is the natural result of working with people who have experienced trauma or stressful events, is associated with mental health problems such as fatigue, anger, substance use, anxiety, depression, decreased job satisfaction, absenteeism, decision-making and patient care skills (Cocker & Joss, 2016). In the literature, it is stated that compassion fatigue is negatively correlated with compassion satisfaction and that mostly nurses develop it (Seremet & Ekinci, 2021; Yilmaz & Üstün, 2018). In the present study, as in the literature, the healthcare personnel’s compassion fatigue level was high (Ruiz-Fernández et al., 2020; Buselli et al., 2020; Zakeri et al., 2021). Given that the present study was conducted with a group, most of whom were nurses working in a pandemic hospital and whose compassion satisfaction level was low, it can be said that this result is inevitable.
Professional quality of life among health care professionals in cystic fibrosis and child and adolescent mental health
Published in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 2022
Mandy Niemitz, Astra-Maria Gaber, Lutz Goldbeck, Astrid Wallenwein, Dunja Tutus, Jörg. M. Fegert, Christina Smaczny, Hans-Eberhard Heuer, Sibylle Junge, Helge Hebestreit, Miriam Schlangen
Compassion fatigue could have negative consequences such as STS for HCPs. Compassion fatigue can lead to emotional exhaustion and is associated with impaired job performance and reduced job satisfaction. It is, therefore, very important to routinely screen ProQoL. Regularly screening ProQoL in care teams could be an opportunity to identify HCPs at risk, and provide them with proper interventions in order to prevent poor quality and safety of patient care, impaired job performance, absenteeism, high turnover, and intent to leave the profession (Johnson et al., 2018). Clinical supervisors could constitute the group of persons mainly responsible for screening the ProQoL of HCPs. The factors that might impact dissemination and further implementation of routine ProQoL screening should also be elucidated in future studies.
Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Responses among Military Chaplains: Implications for Military Behavioral Health
Published in Military Behavioral Health, 2021
James D. Whitworth, Casey N. O’Brien, Chris Stewart
Secondary traumatic stress (STS), which is also known as vicarious traumatization, includes the trauma-related responses that can occur for individuals who have a close relationship with someone who experienced first-hand trauma (Diehle et al., 2017). STS symptoms such as avoidance and hyperarousal frequently mirror those that are occurring in the person who went through the first-hand trauma. Compassion fatigue is the term used to describe the physical, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion often experienced by those in the helping professions (Stewart, 2012) resulting from the stressors associated with providing care to traumatized or distressed clients. This condition can greatly limit the helper’s ability to empathetically engage with those they are seeking to assist (Yan & Beder, 2013). Burnout is considered an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic and poorly managed workplace stress. Symptoms of burnout include low energy/exhaustion and a general sense of negativism or cynicism related to the individual’s job (World Health Organization, 2019).