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Abstract
Emotional distress caused by repeated or prolonged expression of compassion or empathy. It may occur in individuals working in care giving professions.
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- Secondary Trauma
- Secondary Traumatic Stress
- Secondary Traumatization
- Vicarious Trauma
- Vicarious Traumatization
- Fatigue, Compassion
- Secondary Traumas
- Secondary Traumatizations
- Stress, Secondary Traumatic
- Stresses, Secondary Traumatic
- Trauma, Secondary
- Trauma, Vicarious
- Traumas, Secondary
- Traumas, Vicarious
- Traumatic Stress, Secondary
- Traumatization, Secondary
- Traumatization, Vicarious
- Traumatizations, Secondary
- Vicarious Traumas
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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2016
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Compassion Fatigue. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000068376. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000068376
- Compassion Fatigue. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue
- Compassion Fatigue. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5156139