Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
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Author: Babette Rothschild
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 039370422X
ISBN 13: 978-0393704228
How empathy can jeopardize a therapist's well-being.
Therapist burnout is a pressing issue, and self-care is possible only when therapists actively help themselves. The authors examine the literature from neurobiology, social psychology, and folk psychology in order to explain how therapists suffer from an excess of empathy for their clients, and then they present strategies for dealing with burnout and stress.
Review
Full of useful ideas and practices for almost anyone who is struggling to take care of a human in need. (Greater Good, Matthew Wheeland) REVIEW: Very useful to practicing psychotherapists, social workers, nurses, psychiatrists, and especially those in training. (Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Paula Hensley)
About the Author
Babette Rothschild, MSW, has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. She is a bestselling author of six books, all published by WW Norton and translated into more than a dozen languages. She is also the creator and Series Editor of the 8 Keys to Mental Health Series.
After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark she returned to her native Los Angeles where she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, consult, and supervise professional psychotherapists of all sorts worldwide.
Marjorie Rand lives in Manhattan Beach, California.
