The expression of compassion in social work practice

The effects of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) on health‐care workers

“…Furthermore, this study did not separate compassion and burnout from empathic distress. A follow‐up study using an Empathic Distress Scale (Stickle, ) may be beneficial in determining the effects of CCT on reducing participants’ self‐reported levels of empathic distress. Another limitation of the study has to do with its generalisability.…”

Compassion and empathy in community social workers: A qualitative study in Spain

“…community health services, compassion, empathy, qualitative research, social work be fundamental for understanding the feelings and emotions of others from both the affective and cognitive perspectives (Geoffrion, Morselli, & Guay, 2016). However, being empathy oriented may have negative consequences associated with the physical, emotional and spiritual fatigue caused by witnessing and absorbing the suffering of others (Finzi-Dottan & Kormosh, 2016;Stickle, 2016;Turgoose, Glover, Barker, & Maddox, 2017). However, compassion goes beyond empathy, as it involves not only a deep understanding of the situation but also a basic sense of caring about the suffering of others and oneself, being sensitive to it and intending to prevent it (Jay Miller, Lee, Shalash, & Poklembova, 2019;Yi, Kim, Choi, Kim, & O'Connor, 2018).…”

Understanding professional distress through social representations: Investigating the shared experience of healthcare social workers in Canada

“…This image of social work is in sharp contrast to the compassionate dimension of the worker’s professional identity (Lévesque et al, 2019; Stickle, 2016) and is reportedly painful for our participants. An added difficulty is the non-voluntary nature of the service provision, always in the midst of a crisis.…”