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- Dictionarycompassion fatigue
noun
- 1. indifference to charitable appeals on behalf of suffering people, experienced as a result of the frequency or number of such appeals.
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- Compassion fatigue
Condition characterized by emotional and physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others, sometimes described as the negative cost of caring or referred to as secondary traumatic stress
Compassion fatigue is an evolving concept in the field of traumatology. The term has been used interchangeably with secondary traumatic stress (STS), which is sometimes simply described as the negative cost of caring. Secondary traumatic stress is the term commonly employed in academic literature, although recent assessments have identified certain distinctions between compassion fatigue and secon... Wikipedia
