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Empathy fatigue (also called Compassion Fatigue) is an epidemic in healthcare. You give and give until your own personal tank of energy and empathy is empty â¦. then what happens? Often it is behavior that is reactive, dismissive, demeaning to the very people we are called to serve and heal.
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.