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Compassion Fatigue Self-Checklist

Designed for Helping & Mental Health Professionals

Compassion fatigue is often experienced by helping and mental health professionals, and the expression can be used interchangeably with the phrase “secondary traumatic stress” (STS). Feeling compassion fatigue is related to direct or indirect duty-related experiences that involve traumatic events. Mental health and helping professionals use empathy as a central tool, and through utilizing this tool for clients or cases that are trauma-related, professionals expose themselves to the manifestation of compassion fatigue.


Below is a compassion fatigue self-checklist consisting of 50 questions. Check off each statement that applies to you. If you are unsure, leave the box empty.

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Practicing Self-Compassion at Work

Emergency Services

If this is an emergency, please call 911. For suicide and crisis, please call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org.


The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a national network consisting of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to individuals in suicidal crisis or emotional distres

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References

  • Bhandari, S. (2022, December 12). Compassion fatigue: Symptoms to look for. WebMD. https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/signs-compassion-fatigue 
  • Engert, P. E., & Lansdowne, Z. F. (1999). Risk Matrix User's Guide, Version 2.2, Mitre Document. The MITRE Corporation. MP99B0000029
  • Figley, C. R. (1995). Compassion fatigue as secondary traumatic stress disorder: An overview. In C. R. Figley (Ed.), Compassion fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized (pp. 1–20). Brunner/Mazel.
  • Joinson, C. (1992). Coping with compassion fatigue. Nursing, 22(4), 116–121. doi:10.1097/00152193-199204000-00035 
  • Neff, K. (2003). Self-compassion: An alternative conceptualization of a healthy attitude toward oneself. Self and Identity, 2(2), 85–101. doi: 10.1080/15298860309032
  • Stamm, B. H. (1996). Measurement of Stress, Trauma, and Adaptation. Sidran Press. 

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Dr. Klara Alexandra Esposito

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