Generous, funny, moving, and short: it could be the perfect Oscars speech. 2.50pm Commiserations to Nicolas Cage, who just lost out on a Golden Raspberry Award-the anti-Oscar-for his soul-shaking role in the Christian end-of-the-world thriller Left Behind.
Contrasts Between Compassion Fatigue and Related Concepts. Compassion Fatigue is the latest in an evolving concept that is known in the field of Traumatology as Secondary traumatic stress. Most often this phenomenon is associated with the cost of caring (Figley, 1982) for others in emotional pain. There are a number of terms that describe this phenomenon.
Symptoms of Compassion Fatigue. 1  Perceiving the resources and support available for work as chronically outweighed by the demands. 2  Having client/work demands regularly encroach on personal time. 3  Feeling overwhelmed and physically and emotionally exhausted. 4  Having disturbing images from cases intrude into thoughts and dreams.