The emotional aspects of traumatic events are often ignored in professional helpers who are involved in intervention immediately after and following a disaster with victims of emotional trauma. There is a growing body of theoretical and empirical literature that recognizes that engaging in therapeutic work with trauma survivors can and does impact the professional involved. This presentation introduces the designation compassion fatigue to describe the result of working with traumatized people. It explores a theoretical model that accounts for and predicts the emergence of compassion stress and compassion fatigue among professionals working with traumatized people and to explicate the principals associated with accurate diagnosis, assessment, research, treatment and prevention of compassion fatigue.

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