How to Download The Compassion Fatigued Organization: Restoring Compassion to Helping Professionals MOBI
There is a crisis in the human service industry. Helping professionals are bearing the weight of repeated exposure to secondary trauma and chronic stress. Though compassion fatigue and the need for self-care is gaining attention, efforts often ignore one key factor. Compassion fatigue is not just a problem of the individual. Organizations, too, suffer from compassion fatigue, creating a culture that can leave the helping professional feeling as if there is a void of compassion.The good news is that compassion is renewable.The Compassion Fatigued Organization offers a path for helping professionals to combat compassion fatigue and help restore a culture of compassion to their organizations. Drawing on research in trauma, compassion, and neuroscience, as well as decades of experience providing trauma-informed training and consultation to human service organizations, author Michelle Graff provides insight into the compassion fatigue phenomenon. She reveals the reason behind our responses and offers practical ways to build resilience and cultivate compassion.This book is for therapists, counselors, teachers, healthcare providers, social workers, first responders, and others who serve our communities by providing service to those in need. Compassion fatigue impacts all those who work with people who have experienced trauma. The author begins by exploring the human brain and our threat responses as they occur physically, emotionally, cognitively, and interpersonally in relationship patterns.Building resilience requires self-awareness and self-regulation, and it involves shifting our mindsets, identifying emotional triggers, and using regulation to expand our range of tolerance. It also involves an ongoing commitment to practice skills that strengthen our ability to choose compassionate responses, including establishing boundaries, exercising empathy, expressing gratitude, processing, connecting, and planning for self-care.The author provides examples, along with both reflective and practice exercises to facilitate self-awareness and practical application.
