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This scoping review looked at research on compassion fatigue in helping jobs like nursing, counselling, social work, and teaching. The authors found 43 articles and say compassion fatigue is a complex, hard-to-define idea that has been studied most in health care—especially nursing—and that different personal and work factors are linked…
This study of 413 adults (254 women, 155 men; ages 18–81, mean 33.8) looked at how self-compassion relates to post‑traumatic symptoms (PTS) and post‑traumatic growth (PTG). Women reported more PTS and less self‑compassion than men, while PTG did not differ by gender. Higher PTS was linked both to higher PTG…
