Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like ...

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Compassion fatigue can affect the most dedicated workers—people who continue to help by working extra shifts or foregoing days off, neglecting their own self-care.

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Organizations such as, “Not One More Vet” and others have brought this problem into the national spotlight. So on April 11, ...

Language is a key motivator to donate to charities. Unfortunately, the language used by charities is diluted – compassion fatigue is a problem for all charities. In 2016, UNICEF was aiming for a 28% ...

burnout and compassion fatigue. Of the nurses, 82.1% were women, and the average age was 43.3 years. Almost half of the participants said they had low physical activity levels, but most others ...

compassion fatigue; and self-care. Her years in social work education have focused on faculty liaison work, integrative seminar, practice based research, ethics, experiential learning, and utilization ...