Co-Occurring Fatigue: Compassion, Political, and Oppression Fatigue: Understanding and Meeting Our Special Needs as Helping Professionals

• By: Mary Pender Greene, LCSW-R, CGP MPG Consulting
• January 1st, 2018
• burnout, compassion fatigue, oppression fatigue, organizational stress, political fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, self-care, vicarious trauma
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For those of us who work in caregiving environments, we are constantly presented with emotional challenges. Compassion Fatigue symptoms result from the chronic stress of care giving work. Leading traumatologist Eric Gentry notes that people who are attracted to caregiving often enter the field...