CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The stress of working in animal welfare can be overwhelming at times. Compassion fatigue describes the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others, ...

As animal shelters continue to exceed capacity among a nationwide overcrowding crisis, animal rescuers face a crisis of their own: compassion fatigue. The constant care for unwanted and abused animals ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Animal shelters across the country and in East Texas are dealing with an overcrowding crisis. Not only can it be overwhelming for the people who work at shelters, but it’s ...

This post is in response to Costs of Caring for Abused Animals Are Existential Crises By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. A mama black bear and her cub. Source: Tony Joyce Photography/with permission. A few weeks ...

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more astounding miracle than walking on water." The word she used for meeting the ...

Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

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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 ...