Compassion fatigue

1.1 Introduction Palliative care in South Africa was recognised towards the end of the 1970s primarily in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth (Sithole, 2012:7). In 1979, Dame Cecily Saunders (founder of palliative care in the United Kingdom) aided the formation of hospice programmes in South Africa and the initial hospice programmes were based on the United Kingdom model (Sithole, 2012:7). Fourteen hospices in South Africa came together to form a national association called the…

Evicted presents several families on the edge, whose fates are in the hands of their landlords and the government systems. This essay will focus on the case of the Christian church presented through Lorraine and Crystal’s stories. Through tough situations, both women loved and participated in their churches, but were not supported by the church. This is an injustice social work can address by partnering with church communities, especially those in low-income areas, to aid in understanding…

Natalie’s facile confidence immediately bewitched me. In the second semester of our first undergraduate year, roommate troubles foregathered us. I lacked a roommate and she requested a new one due to incongruity with her first roommate. Her effervescence magnetized me and similarities in our lives bonded us within a week of her move to my dorm. We separated after spring semester’s conclusion and happily reunited in the fall. Natalie’s magnetism blinded me from the deleterious aspects of her…

To support employee’s well-being, it’s important for the manager to help the employee to feel self-worth and reduce stress and fatigue. Set up goals, show compassion to employee’s personal problems, and pay attention to employee’s needs (187). When treating employees fairly keep in mind to create equal opportunities, discipline bad behavior, and reward good behavior (189). When demonstrating loyalty…

clients having slow progress. Furthermore, these type of clients have elevated potential to be suicidal, have a background of violence, and complex social problems which lead to the professional having more on the job stress and potential for emotional fatigue (p. 175). This information is very valuable to me as I move forward in my career as a human services professional. I think that no matter what direction in this field that I choose to pursue, I will encounter clients with mental illness.…

Lifestyle and Health Promotion Topic Abraham Lincoln is known for saying that it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that matter. To achieve the maximum life in your years, everyone must work on being in the best shape possible holistically. This can be accomplished by observing what changes are needed in regards to behaviors and lifestyle. This post will discuss the writer’s personal healthy lifestyle practices, other healthy lifestyle behaviors that the writer wants to…

humanity, but also their compassion towards people. Sledge used the description of such instances that permanently changed the soldiers overseas to show to the readers how incomprehensible the images and situations actually are to those who have never served in combat and/or never seen such sights. Sledge descriptively demonstrates the struggle the soldiers endured physically while living on a battle field and the devastating effects of such surroundings caused constant fear, fatigue, and filth.…

discomforting and unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, is still a major challenge. According to the inference that stems from the rational part of man-made science, Pain is a ‘primordial’ phenomenon of the same rank and category as thirst, hunger, fatigue, representing the integral functional part of body defense system. Needless to mention, the ‘convenient’ science has numerous theories, but essentially no clue on crucial factors related to the Pain’ phenomenon’- the origin,…

government in Vietnam. No one suffered more from the chilling effects of the Vietnam War than the soldiers who fought it. American soldiers faced a wide variety of horrors while serving their country in Vietnam. Many of them include disease, fatigue, hunger and watching their fellow comrade’s fall and being exposed to Agent Orange. All of this was horrific and hard to handle by many Vietnam soldiers, but the most troubling was the way the Vietnam soldiers were treated and how they were…

thinks of Victor as his creator and he is miserable: “To this Monster, in a touching gesture, responds by placing his huge hands over Frankenstein’s eyes” (Brooks). The monster seems to have human characteristics and he wants Frankenstein to feel compassion towards him. The murders which the monster commits are the result of his powerlessness and resent he feels in life. The creature is miserable because it drives people away: “His first appearance with humanity, he tells us, already…