Professional Quality of Life
                         Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue
                                   and Secondary Traumatic Stress

Compassion Fatigue

Professional quality of life incorporates two aspects, the positive (Compassion Satisfaction) and the negative (Compassion Fatigue). 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.















Dr. Beth Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D., http://www.proqol.org and Idaho State University
Craig Higson-Smith, M.A., South African Institute of Traumatic Stress
Amy C. Hudnall, M.A., Appalachian State University
Dr. Henry E. Stamm, Ph.D., Pocatello, ID, U.S.A.
Khabir, BA, webmaster