Are Empathy and Compassion Bad for the Professional Social Worker?
Recent studies have shown that social workers and other professional helpers who work with traumatized individuals run a risk of developing compassion fatigue or secondary traumatic stress. Some researchers have hypothesized that helpers do this as a result of feeling too much empathy or too much co...
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| Language: | English |
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Indiana University School of Social Work
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Advances in Social Work |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/17679 |