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Compassion fatigue versus burnout

CrossCurrents

Compassion Fatigue

  • Related to worker's interaction with client's traumatic material
  • Faster onset, occurs with little warning, faster recovery rate
  • Characterized by physical emotional, cognitive, spiritual, mental symptoms

Burnout

  • Related to work environment
  • Gradual process that gets progressively worse
  • Characterized by physical, emotional, mental exhaustion


Source: Moira Ferguson, Kathryn Irwin-Seguin, Leigh MacEwan and Vivian Munroe, Compassion Fatigue and Relational Spirituality: A Participatory Action Research Project with Northern Ontario Addiction Counsellors, presented at the 2005 Annual Addictions Conference, Addictions Ontario.

 
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CrossCurrents Autumn 2005

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