Compassion Fatigue: Coping With Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder in Those Who Treat the Traumatized

This volume is the latest in a series that focuses on the immediate and long-term consequences of highly stressful events. It focuses on those individuals who provide therapy to victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder crisis and trauma counselors, Red Cross workers, nurses, doctors, and other care givers who themselves often become victim to secondary traumatic stress disorder or "compassion fatigue" as a result of helping or wanting to help a traumatized person. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.