Category Archives: Empathic Strain

Navigating Perfectionism, Stigma, and Shame

A Lawyer-Therapist’s Perspective on Staying Well in Trauma-Exposed Work

June 2025

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Secondary Traumatic Stress 101 Course

Secondary Traumatic Stress 101

On-Demand Course

December 2024

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How Challenging Work Changes Us

On-Demand Course

July 2024

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“The Other Wet Floor”

The Emotional Risks of Working in a Helping Profession

June 2024

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Identifying Your Warning Signs

Reflecting on Your Physical, Behavioural, & Emotional Signs of Overwhelm

August 2023

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Screeners for Health & Behavioral Health Professionals

Screening for STS, moral distress, stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction, & self-compassion

Screeners for health and behavioral health professionals to self-identify areas that may be an issue for them including secondary traumatic stress, moral distress, stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction, and self-compassion.

August 2023

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The Professional Quality of Life Measure (ProQOL)

Self-Test for Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, & Compassion Fatigue

The Professional Quality of Life Measure (ProQOL) is a free 30 question self-assessment test designed by Dr. Beth Stamm to evaluate burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction.

April 2023

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Help for the Helper

Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in an Ever-Changing World

In this book. Babette Rothschild examines the literature to explain how therapists suffer from an excess of empathy for their clients and presents strategies for dealing with burnout and stress.

December 2022

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Why It’s Time to Stop Using Compassion Fatigue

Why Empathic Strain is Our Preferred Term

Using the term “empathic strain” is not only more accurate than “compassion fatigue,” but allows us to develop more concrete strategies.

August 2021

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A Shift in Perspective

Why It’s Time to Stop Using Compassion Fatigue

Experts in the fields of secondary trauma and empathic strain bring clarity to the current state of terminology and discuss why the term "compassion fatigue" should be replaced by "empathic strain."

June 2021

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Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement

A Guide for Officers and Their Families

In this book. Kevin Gilmartin delves into the profound emotional toll that public safety work can have on individuals and their families.

June 2021

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Maintaining Balance

Self-Care, Resiliency, and Ethical Service Delivery

Françoise Mathieu shares her thoughts about self-care as an "ethical duty" for those working in high-trauma workplaces in this series presented by by the Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center.

July 2020

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The Edge of Compassion

TEDx Talk with Françoise Mathieu

In this TEDx talk, Françoise Mathieu explores the sweet spot between caring too much and not caring at all.

April 2018

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The Resilient Practitioner

Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for the Helping Professions

In this workbook. Dr. Skovholt and Dr. Trotter-Mathison provide students and practitioners with tools to balance caring for themselves and caring for others.

March 2016

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First Responder Mental Health

Compassion Fatigue Education for Paramedics

Françoise Mathieu discusses post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), compassion fatigue, burnout, and complex stress as it relates to first responder mental health.

April 2015

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The Compassion Fatigue Workbook

Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

In this workbook, Françoise Mathieu provides strategies and activities to identify and transform compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization.

January 2012

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