Self-care: impact on compassion fatigue and retention of black social service professionals

• Main Author: King, Quinchele L.
• Format: Others
• Published: DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center 2016
• Subjects: black; social; service professionals; compassion; Social Work
• Online Access: http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2932; http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4646&context=dissertations

This study examines the impact of self-care on compassion fatigue and retention of Black social service professionals. The goal of this research was to identify the relationship between self-care and its impact on compassion fatigue and retention. The research explored personal and organizational factors that play a role in compassion fatigue and retention. There were thirty-five social service professionals that participated in the survey that was comprised of three scales. Relationships were found in regards to increasing self-care and decreasing compassion fatigue, and a relationship of increasing self-care and increasing retention. The research examined the theoretical framework of the Afrocentric perspective and how it can be utilized to promote self-care in Black social service professionals.