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Professional Quality of Life Elements Theory and Measurement
Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue, Burnout,
Secondary Traumatic Stress. Vicarious Tramatization and Vicarious Transformation
Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue, Burnout,
Secondary Traumatic Stress. Vicarious Tramatization and Vicarious Transformation
NOTICE: Members of the ProQOL community have identified inconsistencies in the t-score tables. If you are calculating your t-scores directly there are no problems. A new revision of the manual is underway has been delayed by a fire that burned our office..
The ProQOL Office Suffers a Fire
As most people who use the ProQOL know, it is a volunteer effort maintained primarily by me, Beth Hudnall Stamm. While the ProQOL lives on a "server in the cloud" and the keyboard that connects to it can be anywhere in the world, its physical home was in my home office. On June 28, 2012, my house burned to the ground along with 65 others in our community in the Rocky Mountains in the Western United States. In less than two hours 2,000 people were evacuated and a mile and a half square area was burned taking our homes with it. We are trying to keep up with the requests that come into the ProQOL.org but are taking longer than we wish to respond. After a month in a hotel we are now in a location where we can set up our office again.
If you are interested in reading about the fire, you can find my family's blog, Building Home, at intermountainwest.tumblr.com
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If you are making a presentation or writing a newsletter article, please do use our stock slides. There are very liberal rules for their use. We want people to use them.Make Contributions to the Bibliography
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Bibliography has proved to be useful to a number of people. If you have
anything you could add to the effort, please do send us the reference!
If it is possible we would appreciate copies of the document too. I am
always delighted to be able to let people know about new articles,
documents and unpublished papers and monographs.
Remember, if you have questions you can look for answers three ways. First, you can check the FAQ. Second, you can look at the information on the Use the ProQOL page. Third, you can contact us directly through the Request Permissions or Contact Us page.
The ProQOL Office Suffers a Fire
As most people who use the ProQOL know, it is a volunteer effort maintained primarily by me, Beth Hudnall Stamm. While the ProQOL lives on a "server in the cloud" and the keyboard that connects to it can be anywhere in the world, its physical home was in my home office. On June 28, 2012, my house burned to the ground along with 65 others in our community in the Rocky Mountains in the Western United States. In less than two hours 2,000 people were evacuated and a mile and a half square area was burned taking our homes with it. We are trying to keep up with the requests that come into the ProQOL.org but are taking longer than we wish to respond. After a month in a hotel we are now in a location where we can set up our office again.
If you are interested in reading about the fire, you can find my family's blog, Building Home, at intermountainwest.tumblr.com
Free, Customizable Stock Slides
If you are making a presentation or writing a newsletter article, please do use our stock slides. There are very liberal rules for their use. We want people to use them.
Make Contributions to the Bibliography
The
Bibliography has proved to be useful to a number of people. If you have
anything you could add to the effort, please do send us the reference!
If it is possible we would appreciate copies of the document too. I am
always delighted to be able to let people know about new articles,
documents and unpublished papers and monographs. Remember, if you have questions you can look for answers three ways. First, you can check the FAQ. Second, you can look at the information on the Use the ProQOL page. Third, you can contact us directly through the Request Permissions or Contact Us page.
Professional quality of life is
the quality one feels in relation to their work as a helper. Both the
positive and negative aspects of doing one’s job influence ones
professional quality of life. People who work in helping professions may
respond to individual, community, national, and even international
crises. Helpers can be found in the health care professionals, social
service workers, teachers, attorneys, police officers, firefighters,
clergy, airline and other transportation staff, disaster site clean-up
crews, and others who offer assistance at the time of the event or
later.
Understanding the positive and negative aspects of helping those who experience trauma and suffering can improve your ability to help them and your ability to keep your own balance.
Understanding the positive and negative aspects of helping those who experience trauma and suffering can improve your ability to help them and your ability to keep your own balance.
Can I use the information on this website for presentations, research and writing papers?
Of course! We built this website so that you would have free and easy access to a multitude of resources on Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Professional Quality of Life. We know that accessing tools requires resources. The resources you need for the ProQOL are your energy, vision and commitment. We do not want you to have to pay for the resources on this site. It was my commitment over 20 years ago that these resources would be given away and I have continued to believe that was the right thing. Please use, share, and help us improve the tools and information we have. Remember, check the FAQ's and the various parts of this website for how you can use the documents here on the website. Most you can simply download and use. If you or we need more documentation, there are forms for each type of request that you can simply fill out. The come directly to us.
Of course! We built this website so that you would have free and easy access to a multitude of resources on Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Professional Quality of Life. We know that accessing tools requires resources. The resources you need for the ProQOL are your energy, vision and commitment. We do not want you to have to pay for the resources on this site. It was my commitment over 20 years ago that these resources would be given away and I have continued to believe that was the right thing. Please use, share, and help us improve the tools and information we have. Remember, check the FAQ's and the various parts of this website for how you can use the documents here on the website. Most you can simply download and use. If you or we need more documentation, there are forms for each type of request that you can simply fill out. The come directly to us.
Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue are two aspects of Professional Quality of Life. They encompass the positive (Compassion Satisfaction) and the negative (Compassion Fatigue) parts of helping others who have experienced suffering. Compassion fatigue breaks into two parts. The first part concerns things such as such as exhaustion, frustration, anger and depression typical of burnout. Secondary Traumatic Stress is a negative feeling driven by fear and work-related trauma. It is important to remember that some trauma at work can be direct (primary) trauma. In other cases, work-related trauma be a combination of both primary and secondary trauma. If working with others suffering changes you so deeply in negative ways that your understanding of yourself changes, this is vicarious traumatization. Learning from and understanding vicarious traumatization can lead one to vicarious transformation.
