Compassion Fatigue

New workers taking on the role of healthcare are excited and energetic and ready to accept something about them. They rarely know that sympathy and fatigue are tight. Compassion fatigue is common among health care providers and includes five main concepts. These five concepts are ambiguous, there are no victories, the roles are overloaded, the roles are inconsistent, and they are not fully recognized. The concept of studying compassion fatigue focuses on nature, causes, and physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

It is worth noting that sympathy fatigue is different from burnout. Burnout is predictable, accumulates over time, leading to work dissatisfaction, but the focus of sympathetic fatigue narrows. People suffering from compassion fatigue may be hurt by the work they are doing while experiencing invasive images and changes in the world view. Sympathetic fatigue is also known as alternative trauma, secondary traumatic stress, second hand shock, and secondary stress response. Regardless of the terms used, sympathetic fatigue can affect and treat aid experts, including legal experts. Treatment of compassion fatigue can prevent the onset of more serious diseases

Like other people in the profession, lawyers face the risk of experiencing compassion fatigue. Attorneys in specific practical fields like criminal law, family law, juvenile law, are often exposed to human trauma, careful listening to the story of the victim, reading the report, and explaining the event of trauma , Especially vulnerable to compassion fatigue. You can see scenes of crimes and accidents, and see graphical evidence of trauma damage. People with a high number of cases and high empathicities also suffer from compassion fatigue.

Sympathetic fatigue, also known as secondary traumatic stress (STS), gradually decreases compassion gradually. A scholar who is studying compassion fatigue points out that this situation is common among victims of disasters, trauma, diseases and directly working workers, especially in the healthcare industry. Other professional experts, such as lawyers, child protection workers, veterinarians, etc., also risk the sympathetic fatigue. Other occupations include therapists, child welfare workers, nurses, radiographers, teachers, psychologists, police, nursing staff, emergency medical technicians (EMT), firefighters, animal welfare workers and health office coordinators Yes. Non-workers such as family members and other informal caregivers of people with chronic illness may also experience sympathetic fatigue. It was first diagnosed by a nurse in the 1950s.