| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 行政管理學系碩士班 === 106 === Animal welfare workers are prone to compassion fatigue caused by prolonged and intense emotional involvement in helping animals. The staff of animal shelters are subjected to a higher level of compassion fatigue when compared with veterinarians. However, government officials of animal protection in Taiwan are likely to suffer from even more severe compassion fatigue as they are responsible for multiple tasks of medical care, refuge and investigations of cruelty cases of animals. Most of the previous studies have explored the causes and cures for compassion fatigue. Even though there were empirical investigations, discussion never came close to how counselling training may help alleviate compassion fatigue. Therefore, this study will verify the effectiveness of the training course through the intervention of training, and compare the effect of the training courses of different consultation mode on the sympathetic fatigue of the animal protectors in Taiwan.
A total of 75 animal welfare workers were publicly recruited to participate in the counselling courses. They were divided into four experimental groups and one control group. Each experimental group was introduced to a different type of counselling approach. This study introduces four types of counselling and psychotherapy, namely: 1. direct instruction; 2. Gestalt psychology; 3. interpersonal process in psychotherapy; and 4. psychoanalysis. Through mixed-methods research, it examines the effects of different counselling approaches on compassion fatigue.
The research findings show: 1. the psychological counselling courses effectively mitigated the compassion fatigue of the participants; 2. the counselling effects of the curricula designed with Gestalt psychology and Psychoanalysis were more obvious than those designed with the other two counselling approachesBased on the findings, we would like to make recommendations for the government to provide related training courses in the future to effectively alleviate the compassion fatigue of animal welfare workers.
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