The cost of helping: Altruism, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction of Filipino school counselors

• Main Author: Fernandez, Rochelle T.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Student counselors—Psychology; Altruism; Secondary traumatic stress; Compassion; Counseling
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12289
• Institution: De La Salle University

School Counseling is a helping profession which include everyday exposure to other people’s problems and life crisis. Due to the nature of this career, counselors are becoming more prone to having compassion fatigue – a negative disposition factored from Burnout and Secondary Trauma. In this explana...