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| Compassion fatigue: considerations for working with the elderly | | Author(s) | Ana M Leon, Judith A S Altholz, Sophia F Dziegielewski |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 32, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 43-62 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Social workers ; Stress. |
| Annotation | Compassion fatigue is characterised by physical and psychological exhaustion resulting from excessive professional demands which drain personal resources. While all helping professionals are vulnerable to compassion fatigue, the authors believe that social workers working with older people have unique stresses that make them a high-risk group for compassion fatigue. Increased frustration over limited financial, social and medical services for older people, exposure to the developmental challenges inherent during the older years, and the worker's countertransferential issues are discussed as contributory factors to compassion fatigue. Other factors reinforcing this type of burnout, and recommendations for avoiding or decreasing compassion fatigue are presented. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991109230 A |
| Classmark | QR: QNH |
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