Compassion Fatigue: Description, Causes and Prevention/Esduyum Yorgunlugu: Tanimi, Nedenleri ve Onlenmesi

• Published in: Psikiyatride güncel yaklaşimlar 2015-06, Vol.7 (3), p.295
• Main Authors: Hicdurmaz, Duygu, Inci, Figen Ari
• Format: Article
• Language: Turkish
• Subjects: Care and treatment; Secondary traumatic stress
• ISSN: 1309-0658
• DOI: 10.5455/cap.20141128113430

Nowadays, paralel to prolonging life time, illness experience can change life of everyone who takes care of the individual directly or indirectly. Prolonging of this time for patient, simultaneously causes prolonging of the time for the care and treatment providers and them to be with the patient more during illness and suffering process. Caring for chronically ill individuals by getting aware of that they won't be able to recover completely, causes them to experience various problems called compassion fatigue. Compasion fatigue is described as the natural feeling and behaviour arising from knowing the traumatizing events which a significant other has experienced; as the stress arising from helping or wanting to help a traumatized individual. The aim of this review is to describe compassion fatigue, explain the concepts with which it is related, and by this way to increase the awareness of professionals who work in helping professions. Key words; Compassion fatigue, burnout, secondary trauma. Gunumuzde yasam suresinin uzamasiyla paralel olarak uzayabilen hastalik deneyimi, bireyle dogrudan ya da dolayli olarak ilgilenen herkesin yasamini degistirmektedir. Hasta birey icin bu surenin uzamasi, ayni zamanda bakim ve tedavi saglayici icin de surenin uzamasina ve bu yardim edicilerin hastalarin aci cekme ve olum sureclerinde onlarla daha fazla birlikte olmalarina yol acmaktadir. Kronik hastaligi olan bireylere, hicbir zaman tam olarak iyilesemeyeceklerini fark ederek bakim vermek, bakim vericilerin esduyum yorgunlugu adi verilen cesitli sorunlar yasamalarina neden olmaktadir. Esduyum yorgunlugu, birey icin onemli bir diger kisinin yasadigi travmatize edici olaylari bilmekten kaynaklanan dogal davranis ve duygu; travmaya ugramis birine yardim etme ya da yardim etmeyi istemekten kaynaklanan stres olarak tanimlanmaktadir. Bu makalede esduyum yorgunlugu kavraminin taniminin yapilmasi, iliskili oldugu kavramlarin aciklanmasi, ve bu yolla konu hakkinda yardim edici mesleklerde calisanlarin farkindaliginin arttirilmasi amaclanmaktadir. Anahtar sozcukler: Esduyum yorgunlugu, tukenmislik, ikincil travma.