Are Empathy and Compassion Bad for the Professional Social Worker?

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorNilsson, P.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-28T19:35:25Z
dc.date.available2016-07-28T19:35:25Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractRecent studies have shown that social workers and other professional helpers who work with traumatized individuals run a risk of developing compassion fatigue or secondary traumatic stress. Some researchers have hypothesized that helpers do this as a result of feeling too much empathy or too much compassion for their clients, thereby implying that empathy and compassion may be bad for the professional social worker. This paper investigates these hypotheses. Based on a review of current research about empathy and compassion it is argued that these states are not the causes of compassion fatigue. Hence, it is argued that empathy and compassion are not bad for the professional social worker in the sense that too much of one or the other will lead to compassion fatigue. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationNilsson, P. (2014). Are empathy and compassion bad for the professional social worker?. Advances in Social Work, 15(2), 294-305.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://advancesinsocialwork.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/viewFile/17679/18385
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/2869
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAdvances in Social Worken_US
dc.subjectvicarious traumaen_US
dc.subjectsecondary traumatic stressen_US
dc.subjectliterature reviewen_US
dc.titleAre Empathy and Compassion Bad for the Professional Social Worker?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

Files

Collections

CALiO Collection of Resources