Module 3

Awareness of compassion fatigue, its causes and self-help strategies can reduce or reverse its effects.

The presenter of this module has trained with the International Association of Trauma Professionals and the content is based on the research into secondary trauma/compassion fatigue by Dr Charles Figley. In this, the final module, she explains how practitioners can use self-care strategies to increase their resilience to compassion fatigue/secondary trauma and using the ABC of self-care, some strategies and tools the individual can acknowledge, address and reverse the symptoms thereby increasing their resilience to compassion fatigue.