Professionals working in the fields of trauma, victim assistance, mental health, law
enforcement, fire response, emergency medical services, and other professions are …

Professionals who work in mental health settings are at risk of developing psychological
distress themselves. The term “compassion fatigue” has been used to describe the negative …

Background Prolonged deficiency in self‐care strategies puts counsellors and
psychotherapists at risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. Aim To measure associations …

Secondary traumatic stress (STS) impacts many helping professionals and staff who are
indirectly exposed to the graphic details of others' traumatic experiences and to the …

This study explored the effects of self-care practices and perceptions on positive and
negative indicators of professional quality of life, including burnout, secondary traumatic …

BACKGROUND: Human service professionals are concerned with the intervention and
empowerment of vulnerable social populations. The human service industry is laden with …

Research suggests that many children are exposed to adverse experiences in childhood.
Such adverse childhood exposures may result in stress and trauma, which are associated …

Police officers who work with victims of rape and sexual assault are exposed to severely
traumatic material. This study aimed to investigate whether these specialist officers had …

Objectives Healthcare professionals are prone to experience burnout—a psychological
syndrome resulting from chronic stressors at work. Some individual differences, like self …

In this article, we address the concepts of vicarious trauma (VT), compassion fatigue (CF),
and burnout (BO) within the context of forensic mental health. These are related, albeit …