NEW PROGRAM OFFERS 'CARE FOR CAREGIVERS'

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Care for the Caregivers, is designed...syndrome called Compassion Fatigue in military...notice signs of Compassion Fatigue in caregivers of wounded...Disorder. "Compassion Fatigue is when caregivers have such deep...

Compassion Fatigue: Dealing with an Occupational Hazard

AANA Journal;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......and well-being of caregivers. A number of terms...phenomenon, including compassion fatigue, secondary victimization...survivor stress. What is Compassion Fatigue? The dictionary defines compassion fatigue as a "feeling of deep...

Recognize symptoms of compassion fatigue: Are you a wounded caregiver?

DVM;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......over-staying its welcome. I'm referring to compassion fatigue - a syndrome that is getting increasingly...attention in veterinary medicine.1,2 Compassion fatigue or the emotional cost of caring is...emotional pain to those experiencing it. Compassion fatigue comes from the repeated ...

Treating compassion fatigue

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Figley, C.R. (2002, Ed.) Treating compassion fatigue. New York: Brunner-Routledge. $60...MD, PhD, BaIa Cynwyd, PA. Treating Compassion Fatigue is one of the more recent volumes...follows and builds upon the 1995 Compassion Fatigue: Coping with Secondary Traumatic...

BLAME MEDIA FOR COMPASSION FATIGUE.(Editorial)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......If so, you may be suffering from ``compassion fatigue,'' a condition in which a person...Doctors Without Borders dismisses compassion fatigue as just a ``fig leaf for editorial...All I can say is, if you've got compassion fatigue, don't come whining to me. We bleeding...

Compassion fatigue.(Editorial)(Editorial)

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......concepts behind the words compassion fatigue. And to my surprise...concept of burnout and compassion fatigue (Figley, 1995, 1997...that the concept of compassion fatigue has been around since...emergencies. The term compassion fatigue indeed seems to be an...Figley ...

C-head wellness corner: Compassion fatigue.

International Journal of Humanities and Peace;  January 1, 2006 ;     470 words ......when we are suffering from compassion fatigue, we work more rather than...emotional and physical health. Compassion fatigue expert Charles Figley has...themselves from the effects of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. The...matter of whether one has compassion ...

The art of caring: compassion fatigue.

Dermatology Nursing;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......are concerned about compassion fatigue. These organizations...and references on compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue (also know as burnout...energy to give others. Compassion fatigue occurs in persons...disorder seen in caregivers who treat persons...society. ...

Compassion fatigue: Communication and burnout toward social problems

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......study establishes the construct of "compassion fatigue," encompassing desensitization and...known empirical investigation of compassion fatigue as it relates to media coverage and...survey methodology was used to measure compassion fatigue among a general, adult population...

Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death

Journal of Political and Military Sociology;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine...27.50 cloth. On the cover of Compassion Fatigue, beneath a translucent dust jacket...images symbolically represent. Compassion Fatigue, Moeller asserts, "is not an unavoidable...

COMPASSION FATIGUE.(Review)

Columbia Journalism Review;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...COMPASSION FATIGUE HOW THE MEDIA SELL DISEASE, FAMINE...last name is, alas, misspelled in Compassion Fatigue) is quoted by Susan Moeller in...eye on the problem. For Moeller, compassion fatigue has many manifestations. It occurs...

Can caregivers care too much?

DVM;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......number of animal caregivers, negatively...condition known as compassion fatigue. What isn't...extensively studied compassion fatigue in human health caregivers and has treated caregivers in recent tragedies...events of 9/11. Compassion fatigue, whether ...

COMPASSION FATIGUE: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and...

The Nation;  February 8, 1999 ;     700+ words ...COMPASSION FATIGUE: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine...commentators began to speak of compassion fatigue, some of them not hiding their...decide how to assign blame for compassion fatigue --to the media themselves, or...

Overcoming compassion fatigue

DVM;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......is the second of five articles on compassion fatigue. The previous one covered the causes...a dreary obligation. It's called compassion fatigue - a syndrome that is taking its toll...profession. Last month, we explained that compassion fatigue is caused by the repeated exposure...

WHP: Helping Nurses, Social Workers & Other Helping Professionals Combat...

Canadian Corporate News;  September 13, 2007 ;     239 words ......trainer and educator on the topics of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Her popular...offering key tools to transforming compassion fatigue and helping helpers remain healthy...Professions Francoise Mathieu, M.Ed., CCC Compassion Fatigue Specialist (613) 547-3247 or Cell...