or Catholic health care leaders, balancing mission with regulatory and fiscal realities means facing up to a future that demands delivering higher quality health care to more people at lower cost. In the struggle to provide quality, compassionate care in a climate that offers fewer resources and, at the same time, adapt to new business models, leaders can underestimate the strain on their front...

The quality of service delivery in response to child maltreatment is significantly affected by the ability of organizations to recruit and retain competent, committed staff (Alwon & Reitz, 2000; Pecora, Briar, & Zlotnik, 1989). Implementing the requirements of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, strategic responses to class action lawsuits, agencies’ efforts to achieve accreditation, an...

General practitioners are often the 'first port of call' for patients with a range of mental health problems, many of whom have a history of trauma or loss. Exposure to emotionally difficult situations puts them at risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. Balint groups are groups of GPs, usually facilitated by a psychiatrist, who discuss the doctor-patient relationship and provide peer support. ...

The Professional Quality of Life scale is a measure intended to provide practitioners and researchers with an indication of a caring professional's compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. While this measure has been used extensively in nursing research, owing to the relevancy of patient-care associated satisfaction and fatigue within this profession, information regard...

An increasing number of publications examine the disturbing effects on clinicians of witnessing or learning of trauma experienced by their patients. This vicarious traumatisation is described in various terms, including secondary victimisation, secondary survival, emotional contagion, counter-transference, burnout and compassion fatigue. It is generally accepted that, while they have significan...

When exposure to traumatic events accumulates because of caring for the victims of the events, compassion fatigue occurs. Deployed military medical personnel, prone to its development, can prevent or mitigate the condition with individual and organizational intervention.

While resident doctors, fellows and new consultants across many specialties display high levels of stress and burnout relative to the general population, ICM clinicians are disproportionately affected, rating higher on stress, burnout and compassion fatigue indices. Paediatric intensivists have markedly higher burnout rates than general paediatricians. An Australian ICM study described an 80% r...

Andersen, J.P. & Papazoglou, K. Compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction among police officers: An understudied topic. International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience, 17(3), 661-663. doi:10.4172/1522-4821.1000259 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/l...