Lightner Library-Keuka College

Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

Help for the helper : preventing compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma in an ever-changing world / Babette Rothschild.

Edition:

Updated + expanded.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Norton Professional Books, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023]

Description:

xxix, 280 pages, 1 folded plate : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm, unfolded plate 23 x 41 cm

Summary:

"An update to the first edition, the author examines the literature from neurobiology, social psychology, and folk psychology in order to explain how therapists suffer from an excess of empathy for their clients, and then they present strategies for dealing with burnout and stress"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

Secondary traumatic stress -- Treatment.

Psychotherapists -- Job stress.

Emergency medical personnel -- Job stress.

Counselors -- Job stress.

Compassion Fatigue -- therapy

Compassion Fatigue -- prevention & control

Psychotherapists

Occupational Stress

Counselors -- Job stress

Emergency medical personnel -- Job stress

Psychotherapists -- Job stress

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.

Contents:

Introduction to this Revised Edition -- Preface: Using common sense -- Introduction to the first edition, 2006 -- Psychotherapists at risk -- Managing the ties that bind -- Keeping calm -- Thinking clearly -- Self-care during shared community/world crises -- Concluding reflections.

LCCN:

2022009715

ISBN:

9781324030492

1324030496

* 9781324030799

Other Number:

1346621860

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

537341

Call Number:

RC552.P67 R6856 2023

Course Reserves:

0

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1

# System items in:

1