Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow: Canadian Health Professionalsa Experience of Compassion Fatigue

by Denise J. Larsen, Linda Kreitzer, Wendy Austin, et al.

Compassion fatigue from the perspective of insiders in caregiving roles First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name--along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress--the condition of caregivers who become "too tired to care." Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155458888X
• ISBN13: 9781554588886
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"