- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section One Stress of Being a Medical Student Introduction
- 1 Distributed Emotional Intelligence
- 2 First Clinical Attachments
- 3 Between two Worlds
- 4 Laughter for Coping
- 5 Bringing Complexity thinking to Curriculum Development
- Section Two Stress of Being a Physician
- 6 Maintaining a Balance
- 7 Physician Stress
- 8 The Medico-Legal Environment and How Medico-Legal Matters Impact the Doctor
- 9 The Impaired Physician
- 10 How Doctors Become Patients
- 11 Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
- Section Three Management of Physician Stress
- 12 Overcopers
- 13 Stress and Coping
- 14 Treatment and Prevention Work
- 15 Promoting Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Physicians
- 16 Ethical Decisions
- Section Four Personal Reflections
- 17 Surgery
- 18 The Gifts of Palliative Care
- 19 Pediatrics
- 20 Psychiatrists in Distress
- 21 Medical Students and Residents
- 22 Family Medicine
- 23 Anesthesiology
- 24 Emergency Medicine
- 25 Conclusions
- Index
Physician Stress
Physician Stress
Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization
- Chapter:
- (p.127) 7 Physician Stress
- Source:
- First Do No Self Harm
- Author(s):
Peter Huggard
Beth Hudnall Stamm
Laurie Anne Pearlman
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
An increasing body of literature examines the presence and nature of vicarious traumatization in health professionals. This phenomenon, also known as compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress although there appear to be some differences between these three constructs, is increasingly being acknowledged as a possible consequence of witnessing the suffering of others. This chapter examines these constructs as well as those of burnout and compassion satisfaction, and places them within the daily routine of a physician. The possible “positive” aspects of such experiences are discussed, including compassion satisfaction and vicarious transformation or growth, as well as possible ways of measuring these constructs. The chapter concludes by reporting research that identified the presence of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in a group of resident physicians and linked these findings with the levels of resilience, spirituality, empathy, and emotional competence in the same group.
Keywords: physician stress, vicarious traumatization, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction, resilience, emotional competence
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section One Stress of Being a Medical Student Introduction
- 1 Distributed Emotional Intelligence
- 2 First Clinical Attachments
- 3 Between two Worlds
- 4 Laughter for Coping
- 5 Bringing Complexity thinking to Curriculum Development
- Section Two Stress of Being a Physician
- 6 Maintaining a Balance
- 7 Physician Stress
- 8 The Medico-Legal Environment and How Medico-Legal Matters Impact the Doctor
- 9 The Impaired Physician
- 10 How Doctors Become Patients
- 11 Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
- Section Three Management of Physician Stress
- 12 Overcopers
- 13 Stress and Coping
- 14 Treatment and Prevention Work
- 15 Promoting Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Physicians
- 16 Ethical Decisions
- Section Four Personal Reflections
- 17 Surgery
- 18 The Gifts of Palliative Care
- 19 Pediatrics
- 20 Psychiatrists in Distress
- 21 Medical Students and Residents
- 22 Family Medicine
- 23 Anesthesiology
- 24 Emergency Medicine
- 25 Conclusions
- Index
