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We become clinicians because we have compassion an we are interested in positively influencing a person's quality of life. We give of ourselves so that we may help other's obtain good health. As righteous as this can be, it can also lead to "clinical burnout" or "compassion fatigue". | |||
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== | == Definition/ Description == | ||
There are many terms to describe this phenomenon, including: | |||
* Compassion fatigue; | |||
* Secondary Traumatic Stress Syndrome (STSS); | |||
* Clinical burnout; | |||
* Burnout syndrome; | |||
* Moral distress; | |||
* Occupational burnout. | |||
Regardless of the term, a "''burnout''" can be best understood as: a syndrome (a collection of symptoms) of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment. Symptoms of burnout include mental and physical exhaustion, accompanied by psychosomatic disorders and emotional problems. Burnout occurs most often in people employed in occupations requiring working with people (human services and medical services) as a result of coping with stress and experience numerous failures at work. Moreover, a compassion fatigue denotes a state of emotional exhaustion that can occur as a result of intensive empathic involvement with people who are in distress.<ref>Figley, C. R. (2002). Compassion fatigue: Psychotherapists' chronic lack of self care. ''Journal of Clinical Psychology'', '''58''', 1433–1441.</ref> | |||
== Epidemiology == | |||
Compassion fatigue may start at any stage during a physiotherapists career, irrespective of the work situation.<ref name="Klappa 1">Klappa SG, Fulton LE, Cerier L, Peña A, Sibenaller A, Klappa SP. Compassion fatigue among physiotherapist and physical therapists around the world. Glob. J. Med. Phys. 2015;3(5);124-137</ref><br> | Compassion fatigue may start at any stage during a physiotherapists career, irrespective of the work situation.<ref name="Klappa 1">Klappa SG, Fulton LE, Cerier L, Peña A, Sibenaller A, Klappa SP. Compassion fatigue among physiotherapist and physical therapists around the world. Glob. J. Med. Phys. 2015;3(5);124-137</ref><br> | ||
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We become clinicians because we have compassion an we are interested in positively influencing a person's quality of life. We give of ourselves so that we may help other's obtain good health. As righteous as this can be, it can also lead to "clinical burnout" or "compassion fatigue".
Definition/ Description[edit | edit source]
There are many terms to describe this phenomenon, including:
- Compassion fatigue;
- Secondary Traumatic Stress Syndrome (STSS);
- Clinical burnout;
- Burnout syndrome;
- Moral distress;
- Occupational burnout.
Regardless of the term, a "burnout" can be best understood as: a syndrome (a collection of symptoms) of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment. Symptoms of burnout include mental and physical exhaustion, accompanied by psychosomatic disorders and emotional problems. Burnout occurs most often in people employed in occupations requiring working with people (human services and medical services) as a result of coping with stress and experience numerous failures at work. Moreover, a compassion fatigue denotes a state of emotional exhaustion that can occur as a result of intensive empathic involvement with people who are in distress.[1]
Epidemiology[edit | edit source]
Compassion fatigue may start at any stage during a physiotherapists career, irrespective of the work situation.[2]
Clinical Presentation[edit | edit source]
Therapists experiencing CF reported they:
- struggle to show compassion to their patients while dealing with job related stressors. [2]
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- ↑ Figley, C. R. (2002). Compassion fatigue: Psychotherapists' chronic lack of self care. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 1433–1441.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Klappa SG, Fulton LE, Cerier L, Peña A, Sibenaller A, Klappa SP. Compassion fatigue among physiotherapist and physical therapists around the world. Glob. J. Med. Phys. 2015;3(5);124-137
