Compassion Fatigue

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How Accelerated Resolution Therapy Can Heal Your Patients’ Pain?

Post-traumatic stress disorder ruins lives. The sound of a firecracker plunges a patient into a war-zone firefight. A hug is a replay of sexual abuse. A movie scene evokes all the pain of losing a loved one. Ordinary events are no longer ordinary. They are switches, flipping patients into an immersive memory that recreates every …

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Dealing With Compassion Fatigue as a Trauma Therapist

For those of us who work closely in a therapeutic relationship with people who have experienced trauma or other painful life events, compassion fatigue sometimes feels like an inherent occupational risk. Compassion fatigue, sometimes called secondary traumatic stress, is the condition of becoming utterly emotionally (and physically) exhausted after being exposed to others’ trauma for …

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