This is a very personal issue for me. After having experienced burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary trauma, as well as researching it thoroughly during my graduate degree, this is an issue that I feel called upon to help others with. Having moved through these psychological, emotional and ultimately spiritual wounds and into healing, I have a deep resource to support you in your journey to health and wellness – to feel alive and caring again – to help you reconnect to the caring and compassion that brought you into the line of work you were drawn to – to serve self and others in a way that is sustainable and healthy.
Below are some useful links in regards to stress, burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious or secondary trauma:
- http://mailer.fsu.edu/~cfigley/CFintro.html (self-administered and scored questionnaire)
- http://counselingoutfitters.com/Simpson.htm (Counsellors and Spirituality)
- http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/vtrauma.html (Lawyers/Attorneys/Police Officers at Risk)
- http://www.fisherandassociates.org/pdfs/HealthCare_03.pdf (Nurses at Risk)
- http://www.arte-sana.com/articles/social_worker_burnout.htm (Social Workers)
- http://www.wcsap.org/pdf/RAD%206-2.pdf (Sexual Assault workers/Therapists)
- http://www.fisherandassociates.org/pdfs/RoadBackWellnessCorrections_06.pdf (Corrections Officers/Workers)
- http://www.fisherandassociates.org/pdfs/RoadBackWellnessCorrections_06.pdf (Prevention)
- http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/burnout.html (Paramedics)