This training manual for national child welfare adoption professionals can be modified to address compassion fatigue in other workplaces. It includes discussions about what compassion fatigue is, several participant tests to see if compassion fatigue is being experienced and self-awareness and self-care activities
National Child Resource Center for Adoption (2010). Adoption Competency Curriculum Trainer’s Manual: Compassion fatigue: Secondary traumatic stress disorder, burnout, vicarious trauma. Retrieved from http://www.nrcadoption.org/pdfs/acc/TG%20-%20Compassion%20Fatigue%203-10.pdf
National Child Resource Center for Adoption (2010). Adoption Competency Curriculum Trainer’s Manual: Compassion fatigue: Secondary traumatic stress disorder, burnout, vicarious trauma. Retrieved from http://www.nrcadoption.org/pdfs/acc/TG%20-%20Compassion%20Fatigue%203-10.pdf
Information about what organizations should do in order to offer support to their staff members in order to prevent vicarious trauma (compassion fatigue). Also contains brief resource list about traumatic stress education/advocacy.
Stamm, B.H., Varra, E.M., Pearlman, L.A., & Giller, E. (2002). The helper’s power to heal and to be hurt—or helped—by trying. Washington DC: Register Report: A publication of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. Retrieved from http://riskingconnection.com/rc_pdfs/RC_ResearchPage/Helper's%20Power%20to%20Heal.pdf
Stamm, B.H., Varra, E.M., Pearlman, L.A., & Giller, E. (2002). The helper’s power to heal and to be hurt—or helped—by trying. Washington DC: Register Report: A publication of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. Retrieved from http://riskingconnection.com/rc_pdfs/RC_ResearchPage/Helper's%20Power%20to%20Heal.pdf