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This web page explores the impacts working with disaster survivors may have on rescue workers, volunteers, healthcare professionals, and journalists and provides strategies for resilience and self-care. It explores tips for avoiding retraumatization of people receiving services and discusses the importance of professional wellness, noting possibilities for burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization.
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This web page summarizes the effects disasters and traumatic events can have on individuals and provides strategies for relieving and addressing stress. It links to resources designed to support coping with mass violence, resources to support children and families, and other tips for disaster survivors.
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This guide provides insights and recommendations for disaster responders and first responders, assisting them in effectively handling stress in crisis response situations. It outlines the physiological impact of stress and offers suggestions for both individuals and organizations to encourage and participate in stress management practices.
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This article, available both online and as an audio recording, shares the experiences of mental health professionals responding to multiple natural disasters. The article sheds light on the immense stress and personal and vicarious trauma disaster response teams may face.
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This tip sheet explores the signs and symptoms of stress and compassion fatigue experienced by individuals providing healthcare services. It highlights the importance of self-care and stress management and provides tips for staff and team leads to address stress and compassion fatigue.
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Provided for healthcare professionals and others responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, this hour-long webinar recording defines burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and resilience. It covers ways to manage burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury and to increase resilience. Although this webinar was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, it includes information that will be helpful in the event of future pandemics.
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This tip sheet explores the signs and symptoms of stress and compassion fatigue experienced by individuals providing healthcare services. It highlights the importance of self-care and stress management and provides tips for staff and team leads to address stress and compassion fatigue.
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Designed for healthcare workers, this 1-hour webinar recording covers ways to manage stress (and support colleagues in stress management) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar focuses on the Stress First Aid framework for self-care, stress management, and peer support. Although this webinar was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, it includes information likely to be helpful in the event of future pandemics.
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Developed for healthcare and social services workers, this set of modules includes links to videos, checklists, and toolkits to help professionals in health care and social services recognize their stress levels and engage in self-care and resilience building. The three modules guide participants through discussion concerning compassion fatigue, stress mitigation, and strategies for coping, and include links to relevant resources and trainings.
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Developed by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, or ASPR (formerly the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response), this document provides self-paced learning modules on self-care and disaster behavioral health. Topics covered include compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress, organizational wellness, and cognitive tools. Related resources are also provided.
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This pamphlet defines and describes indirect trauma, which is sometimes also referred to as compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma. It explains how indirect traumatization occurs, highlights effects of indirect trauma, and suggests ways to cope.
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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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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.
The Provider Resilience desktop app gives healthcare professionals tools to guard against burnout and compassion fatigue as they help service members, veterans, and their families. The app allows users to complete a variety of self-assessments to understand their level of resilience and risk of burnout. Users must create an account with health.mil to gain access to the app.
This 2-hour training describes the stressors of response work and possible consequences of stress. It equips responders with techniques for addressing and managing stress and coping with challenges. The training covers the stress response, compassion fatigue, and Psychological First Aid and other methods and approaches to coping with stress. Users must create an account with a Train.org website to access the training.
Designed for victim services and emergency and disaster response organizations, this toolkit defines various trauma; provides information and tools to help organizations become vicarious trauma-informed; and offers information and resources for professionals in the areas of emergency medical services, fire services, and law enforcement.
This web page explores the impacts that traumatic events and subsequent traumatic stress can cause to an individual and provides strategies for those working with these individuals to ensure resilience and self-care. It explores tips for avoiding retraumatization for individuals receiving services and discusses the importance of professional wellness, noting possibilities for burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization.
The ProQOL is a commonly used measure of the negative and positive effects of helping others who have experienced suffering and trauma, including disaster survivors. The ProQOL has sub-scales for compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.