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.
Compassion is the response to the suffering of others that motivates a desire to help them. Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to help physical, spiritual, or emotional hurts and pains of another.