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Helping the Homeless/Self care
Trying to provide help to people who are homeless is often frustrating in the face of inadequate resources and multiple barriers to care.
October 10, 2007
By nrchmi.samhsa.gov
Category: editorial
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Trying to provide help to people who are homeless is often frustrating in the face of inadequate resources and multiple barriers to care. Caring can become burdensome; causing providers to experience signs and symptoms of what the literature variously calls compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, or vicarious traumatization. To feel weighed down by these circumstances is not unusual or pathological. In fact, it is a quite normal response. The “treatment of choice” for providers to diminish the negative effects of this stress is to seek resiliency and renewal through the practice of healthy self-care.
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