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Professional Quality of Life Elements Theory and Measurement
Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue, Burnout,
Secondary Traumatic Stress. Vicarious Tramatization and Vicarious Transformation
Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue, Burnout,
Secondary Traumatic Stress. Vicarious Tramatization and Vicarious Transformation
NOTICE: Members of the ProQOL community have identified inconsistencies in the t-score tables. If you are calculating your t-scores directly there are no problems. A new revision of the manual is underway but will not be available until late Spring.
NEW! Updated Self-Scoring Directions
An updated version of the ProQOL 5 Self Score has been posted. The updates are to the self scoring directions. The changes wee made based on the email questions we have received over the past 15 months. Please do provide feedback if you can. We are always trying to improve.
New! Translations
We have posted four new translations of the ProQOL 5, one in Chinese, one in Russian one in Portuguese from Portugal and one in Norwegian.
Free, Customizable Stock Slides
If you are making a presentation or writing a newsletter article, please do use our stock slides. There are very liberal rules for their use. We want people to use them.
A Global Effort: ProQOL Translations
The ProQOL is now available in 17 languages including English. The languages include Chinese, English, Finish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Help Update Translations
If you have the ability to update any of the translations, please help all of us! I have endeavored to make it as easy as possible. If you are updating from IV to 5, there is a document that shows the exact changes that were made to the 10 questions that were changed. Most of these changes are grammar. There are a few measures that are still in Version III. This is a more complicated update but we can assist you with doing it.
Help Improve Existing Translations
Translations can benefit from more than one person working on it. If you know one of the non-English languages listed we would appreciate you taking the time to review the existing translation and make suggestions for improvements.
Help with New Translations
Translations help colleagues around the world. If you know a language that is not listed please consider volunteering to complete a translation. We are always eager to assist if you are willing to work on a translation.Make Contributions to the Bibliography
The
Bibliography has proved to be useful to a number of people. If you have
anything you could add to the effort, please do send us the reference!
If it is possible we would appreciate copies of the document too. I am
always delighted to be able to let people know about new articles,
documents and unpublished papers and monographs.
Remember, if you have questions you can look for answers three ways. First, you can check the FAQ. Second, you can look at the information on the Use the ProQOL page. Third, you can contact us directly through the Request Permissions or Contact Us page.
NEW! Updated Self-Scoring Directions
An updated version of the ProQOL 5 Self Score has been posted. The updates are to the self scoring directions. The changes wee made based on the email questions we have received over the past 15 months. Please do provide feedback if you can. We are always trying to improve.
New! Translations
We have posted four new translations of the ProQOL 5, one in Chinese, one in Russian one in Portuguese from Portugal and one in Norwegian.
Free, Customizable Stock Slides
If you are making a presentation or writing a newsletter article, please do use our stock slides. There are very liberal rules for their use. We want people to use them.
A Global Effort: ProQOL Translations
The ProQOL is now available in 17 languages including English. The languages include Chinese, English, Finish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Help Update Translations
If you have the ability to update any of the translations, please help all of us! I have endeavored to make it as easy as possible. If you are updating from IV to 5, there is a document that shows the exact changes that were made to the 10 questions that were changed. Most of these changes are grammar. There are a few measures that are still in Version III. This is a more complicated update but we can assist you with doing it.
Help Improve Existing Translations
Translations can benefit from more than one person working on it. If you know one of the non-English languages listed we would appreciate you taking the time to review the existing translation and make suggestions for improvements.
Help with New Translations
Translations help colleagues around the world. If you know a language that is not listed please consider volunteering to complete a translation. We are always eager to assist if you are willing to work on a translation.
Make Contributions to the Bibliography
The
Bibliography has proved to be useful to a number of people. If you have
anything you could add to the effort, please do send us the reference!
If it is possible we would appreciate copies of the document too. I am
always delighted to be able to let people know about new articles,
documents and unpublished papers and monographs. Remember, if you have questions you can look for answers three ways. First, you can check the FAQ. Second, you can look at the information on the Use the ProQOL page. Third, you can contact us directly through the Request Permissions or Contact Us page.
Professional quality of life is
the quality one feels in relation to their work as a helper. Both the
positive and negative aspects of doing one’s job influence ones
professional quality of life. People who work in helping professions may
respond to individual, community, national, and even international
crises. Helpers can be found in the health care professionals, social
service workers, teachers, attorneys, police officers, firefighters,
clergy, airline and other transportation staff, disaster site clean-up
crews, and others who offer assistance at the time of the event or
later.
Understanding the positive and negative aspects of helping those who experience trauma and suffering can improve your ability to help them and your ability to keep your own balance.
Understanding the positive and negative aspects of helping those who experience trauma and suffering can improve your ability to help them and your ability to keep your own balance.
Can I use the information on this website for presentations, research and writing papers?
Of course! We built this website so that you would have free and easy access to a multitude of resources on Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Professional Quality of Life. We know that accessing tools requires resources. The resources you need for the ProQOL are your energy, vision and commitment. We do not want you to have to pay for the resources on this site. It was my commitment over 20 years ago that these resources would be given away and I have continued to believe that was the right thing. Please use, share, and help us improve the tools and information we have. Remember, check the FAQ's and the various parts of this website for how you can use the documents here on the website. Most you can simply download and use. If you or we need more documentation, there are forms for each type of request that you can simply fill out. The come directly to us.
Of course! We built this website so that you would have free and easy access to a multitude of resources on Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Professional Quality of Life. We know that accessing tools requires resources. The resources you need for the ProQOL are your energy, vision and commitment. We do not want you to have to pay for the resources on this site. It was my commitment over 20 years ago that these resources would be given away and I have continued to believe that was the right thing. Please use, share, and help us improve the tools and information we have. Remember, check the FAQ's and the various parts of this website for how you can use the documents here on the website. Most you can simply download and use. If you or we need more documentation, there are forms for each type of request that you can simply fill out. The come directly to us.
Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue are two aspects of Professional Quality of Life. They encompass the positive (Compassion Satisfaction) and the negative (Compassion Fatigue) parts of helping others who have experienced suffering. Compassion fatigue breaks into two parts. The first part concerns things such as such as exhaustion, frustration, anger and depression typical of burnout. Secondary Traumatic Stress is a negative feeling driven by fear and work-related trauma. It is important to remember that some trauma at work can be direct (primary) trauma. In other cases, work-related trauma be a combination of both primary and secondary trauma. If working with others suffering changes you so deeply in negative ways that your understanding of yourself changes, this is vicarious traumatization. Learning from and understanding vicarious traumatization can lead one to vicarious transformation.
