… Given the high rate of victim advocates in our sample with a history of trauma, it may be
important to intervene earlier to educate victim advocates how to effectively cope with the work-…

… Traumatic Stress and Compassion Fatigue are defined as separate terms. Figley has since
acknowledged a difference in definitions, and explains that Compassion Fatigue is a result of …

… compassion fatigue. In order to gain a complete understanding, I will first discuss the nature
of victim advocacy … Second, I will be closely analyzing the nature of compassion fatigue and …

… Compassion fatigue: Toward a new understanding of the costs of caring. In Stamm BH (Ed.),
Secondary traumatic stress: Self-care issues for clinicians, researchers, and educators (pp. …

… significantly differed in compassion fatigue by years of … showing higher levels of compassion
fatigue in younger, and … of compassion fatigue in victim advocates compares to those …

… have been largely neglected in the research arena, and that victim advocates are at … victim
advocates. Specifically, we were interested in identifying workplace support victim advocates …

… novice victim advocates. Specially, the aim was to gain insight into how victim advocates
who … Compassion fatigue: Toward a new understanding of the costs of caring. In BH Stamm …

… The primary purpose of this research is to explore rape victim advocates’ experiences with
secondary traumatic stress and burnout, as well as the coping strategies used after handling …

… compassion fatigue is necessary to assist in the development of interventions aimed at reducing
symptoms of compassion fatigue and … In contrast, victim advocates had the lowest mean …

… advocates use self-care to prevent compassion fatigue. The sample for this study were domestic
violence advocates … light on victim advocacy and the byproduct of compassion fatigue. In …