Student affairs professionals develop empathetic relationships with students and are personally affected by the trauma and problems students bring. We stay late, answer texts from family dinners, and worry about our students well after we go home. Feelings of frustration and even burnout take over. This is called compassion fatigue and we need to talk about it in the student affairs profession. In this session, we will talk about how we experience compassion fatigue, how the pandemic has changed our experience of compassion fatigue, and how we can move toward compassion satisfaction in our work.
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