With COVID, mass shootings, monkeypox, the fall of abortion rights, racially fueled hate crimes and the exploding mental health crisis ― just to name a few ― it can really feel like we’re stuck in a ...

Last year, Eric Singhi, MD, a thoracic medical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, noticed a shift in his team. The small band of four clinicians, once motivated and enthusiastic, were ...

Doctronic reports burnout and compassion fatigue are distinct yet related; understanding them is crucial for caregiver ...

Research suggests it’s not compassion that wears doctors down but a different emotion — a distinction that may help them ...

We're all tired and could do with a four-day working week... and have a lot going on in our personal lives. But, while you may have heard of burnout (where prolonged stress affects our wellbeing), ...

In professions requiring emotional investment and exposure to others’ struggles, terms like compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma often come up. While these conditions share some similarities, they ...

Sandy Bruno, youth and family coordinator at Comfort Zone Camp, a national nonprofit bereavement camp for grieving families, experienced compassion fatigue in the aftermath of her husband's death. She ...

Learn more about compassion fatigue, a growing mental health issue among lawyers, including the key warning signs and ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. After serving in the Vietnam War, Charles Figley became interested in the concept of trauma—not only the lasting psychological ...

Empathy is essential for leadership—but constant caregiving can extract a heavy toll on leaders. We even see such leaders within our own teams who struggle to watch them burn themselves out. So how ...