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Understanding Self-Care: Navigating Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Vicarious Trauma

Self-care is crucial for those in helping professions, especially when dealing with burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Burnout results from chronic stress, leading to physical and emotional exhaustion. Compassion fatigue arises from the emotional toll of witnessing client trauma, while vicarious trauma affects helpers' perspectives and emotions through empathetic engagement. To maintain effectiveness, caregivers must prioritize self-care, taking time to restore themselves when feelings of exhaustion and demoralization emerge. Adopting a long-term perspective is essential for sustaining their ability to support others.

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Understanding Self-Care: Navigating Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Vicarious Trauma

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  1. What is your definition of self-care?

  2. Defining Our Terms Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Vicarious Trauma: What are they and why does it matter?

  3. Burnout: 1.) Rocket engine failure due to excessive heat or friction. 2.) Physical or emotional exhaustion, especially as a result of long-term stress.

  4. Compassion Fatigue: A state of tension and preoccupation with individual or cumulative trauma of clients. (p. 125, “Treating Compassion Fatigue,” 2002, Charles Figley, Ed.)

  5. Vicarious Trauma: The transformation or change in a helper’s inner experience as a result of responsibility for an empathic engagement with traumatized clients. (Saakvitne, Gamble, Pearlman, and Lev, 1999).

  6. How do we take care of ourselves well enough to be able to make sense of all of the things we are witnessing?

  7. In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel ‘burnout’ setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective - The Dalai Lama

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