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Tips for Disaster Responders: Understanding Compassion Fatigue

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This tip sheet describes compassion fatigue and its components, burnout and secondary traumatic stress. It offers tips for coping with compassion fatigue, and it also describes compassion satisfaction and notes ways to foster compassion satisfaction among members of your response team.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)