Class Assessment - Compassion Fatigue - Advanced Holistic Healing Arts

Compassion Fatigue CE class Assessment
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Choose the best answer (one answer) for the questions below.
Question 1: Compassion fatigue__________*
- may also be called secondary traumatic stress
- was first used to diagnose nurses in the 1950's
- is a loss of satisfaction from doing ones job well
- is all the above
- is none of the above
Question 2: H. Freudenberger defines compassion fatige as:*
- job-related distres that outweighs job satisfaction
- caregiver fatigue
- depletion or exhaustion of a person's mental and physical resources
- the cost of care
Question 3: Burnout _____________*
- is the same as compassion fatigue
- is usually related to administrative, organization or political issues at work
- is related to the clients/patients seeing the practitioner
- includes suffering
Question 4: Empathy is:*
- suffering
- trauma
- identification with a client
- overwhelming
Question 5: Which of the following events usually does NOT contribute to burnout?*
- Heavy caseloads weighted with clients experiencing trauma
- Lack of administrative support
- Lots of contact with peers
- No recognition or rewards for work done
Question 6: A motivating factor for people entering the care proressions can include:*
- helping others through similar experiences to their own
- high levels of empathy
- a need to fix others
- family pressure to be successful in healing profession
- all the above
Question 7: The signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue:*
- May be subtle
- may be easy to identify
- are always physical
- are always emotional
Question 8: The most widely used evidence-based assessment of compassion fatigue:*
- is the ProQOL
- was developed by Charles Figley
- is expensive and difficult to access
- None of the above
Question 9: Care-givers neglect self-care because:*
- they are too busy taking care of others
- symptoms of distress can be subtle and easily missed
- they feel supported by being caregivers and think that is enough reward
- All the above
- None of the above
Question 10: A good way to maintain boundaries and not take on client issues is:*
- to stereotype or label clients
- stepping into the client's situation to better understand their problems
- maintain a problem-solving attitude
- Distance themselves from the client
Question 11: Compassion Burnout is a term used for what population?*
- EMT's and first responders
- family and other caregivers
- nurses
- physicians
Question 12: Françoise Mathieu states compassion fatigue is due to:*
- the most difficult story you have ever heard
- the thousands of stories you don't even remember hearing
- we can fathom the suffering of a few, but a million beomes astatistic that numbs us
- None of the above
Question 13: Work can become a negative pressure when:*
- we bring work home with use due to heavy workloads
- we determine our own value based on the outcome
- when we have no other rewards outside of work
- All the above
Question 14: The signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue may include:*
- only emotional signs and symptoms
- only physical signs and symptoms
- physical, emotional, and behavioral signs and symptoms
- none of the above
Question 15: Information processing biases or thinking eerrors can generate negative thinking patterns including:*
- All or nothing thinking
- empathy
- therapeutic relationships
- transference
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Compassion Fatigue CE class Assessment

Choose the best answer (one answer) for the questions below.