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This book examines why professions built on care, empathy, and service can become emotionally, psychologically, and morally costly, and what is required to make helping work sustainable. Drawing on research across education, health care, social work, counselling, psychology, and allied health, the book argues that compassion fatigue is not simply an individual problem but the product of a broader ecological system shaped by emotional labour, professional identity, organisational conditions, digital pressures, and professional education.
Moving beyond conventional resilience and self-care approaches, the author integrates contemporary scholarship on compassion fatigue, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, moral injury, trauma-informed practice, and the neurobiology of empathy to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding professional wellbeing. The book examines how hidden emotional labour, organisational betrayal, workload pressures, public expectations, and the attention economy contribute to professional strain, while also identifying pathways to sustainable and ethical practice.
Throughout the volume, the author introduces original conceptual models, including the Compassion-Sustaining Organisation Framework, the Sustainable Helper Model, and the Ecological Model of Compassion Sustainability. These frameworks reposition wellbeing as a shared responsibility across individuals, teams, organisations, educators, professional bodies, and wider systems.
Combining theory, research, and practice-informed insights, Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Sustaining Wellbeing in the Helping Professions offers scholars, students, practitioners, organisational leaders, and educators a new way of understanding and sustaining helping work. It is essential reading for those interested in professional wellbeing, occupational health, emotional labour, workforce sustainability, and the future of the helping professions.
