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Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma
Help for the Helper The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma
Author: Babette Rothschild
How empathy can jeopardize a therapist's well-being. — Therapist burnout is a pressing issue, and self-care is possible only when therapists actively help themselves. The authors examine the literature from neurobiology, social psychology, and folk psychology in order to explain how therapists suffer from an excess of empathy for their cli...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393704228
ISBN-10: 039370422X
Publication Date: 3/1/2006
Pages: 240
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Hardcover
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