The narrative review endorsed and published by the American Psychological Association, “Predictors of Compassion Fatigue in Mental Health Professionals: Narrative Review”, identifies another factor that correlates compassion fatigue with experience. The review reported that “Compassion fatigue increased with years spent working in the field of trauma counseling” and that long-time a “mental health practitioner in a children’s hospital were also more likely to report high compassion fatigue” (Turgoose and Maddox). In this era of huge scientific and technological advances, a growing trend of decreased interpersonal interaction is occurring in the health care profession which is leading to higher rates compassion fatigue. In the article, “Compassion
