The authors are Wendy Austin, Canada Research Chair (Relational Ethics), E. Sharon Brintnell, Erika Goble, Leon Kagan, Linda Kreitzer, and Brendan Leier. Scholars and/or clinicians situated primarily at the University of Alberta (Kreitzer, University of Calgary), they form an interdisciplinary group (anthropology, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, philosophy, psychology, and social work) with a deep interest in ethical, compassionate health care and the well-being of those who provide it.

This book should be required reading in the education of all health and human service professionals. Although technical and therapeutic expertise is a core foundation of competent, ethical, and safe practice, education often neglects compassion fatigue as a central aspect of human relationship. Also neglected is the meaning of human suffering-much to the consistent detriment of service providers and those for whom they care, particularly in the context of increased market-driven healthcare. This book can create the foundation for much-needed open conversations about these pressing issues. -- Elizabeth McGibbon, Ph.D., RN, editor of Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health (2012)

• Table of Contents for Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow: Canadian Health Professionals' Experience of Compassion Fatigue, by Wendy Austin, E. Sharon Brintnell, Erika Goble, Leon Kagan, Linda Kreitzer, Denise J. Larsen, and Brendan LeierThe Question of Compassion Fatigue: An IntroductionWhat Is Compassion?Differing Understandings of Compassion FatigueA New Way of Understanding Compassion FatigueThe Cold Heart: The Bodily Experience of Compassion FatigueThe Endless Winter: The Temporal Experience of Compassion FatigueLost and Alone in a Prairie Blizzard: The Experience of Space in Compassion FatigueAn Icy Wall (Within and Between): Relations and Compassion FatigueBundling Up: Finding Hope in Cold ClimesSurvival in Winter CountryEpilogueBibliographyIndex

The authors are Wendy Austin, Canada Research Chair (Relational Ethics), E. Sharon Brintnell, Erika Goble, Leon Kagan, Linda Kreitzer, and Brendan Leier. Scholars and/or clinicians situated primarily at the University of Alberta (Kreitzer, University of Calgary), they form an interdisciplinary group (anthropology, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, philosophy, psychology, and social work) with a deep interest in ethical, compassionate health care and the well-being of those who provide it.

This book should be required reading in the education of all health and human service professionals. Although technical and therapeutic expertise is a core foundation of competent, ethical, and safe practice, education often neglects compassion fatigue as a central aspect of human relationship. Also neglected is the meaning of human suffering-much to the consistent detriment of service providers and those for whom they care, particularly in the context of increased market-driven healthcare. This book can create the foundation for much-needed open conversations about these pressing issues. -- Elizabeth McGibbon, Ph.D., RN, editor of Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health (2012)

• Table of Contents for Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow: Canadian Health Professionals' Experience of Compassion Fatigue, by Wendy Austin, E. Sharon Brintnell, Erika Goble, Leon Kagan, Linda Kreitzer, Denise J. Larsen, and Brendan LeierThe Question of Compassion Fatigue: An IntroductionWhat Is Compassion?Differing Understandings of Compassion FatigueA New Way of Understanding Compassion FatigueThe Cold Heart: The Bodily Experience of Compassion FatigueThe Endless Winter: The Temporal Experience of Compassion FatigueLost and Alone in a Prairie Blizzard: The Experience of Space in Compassion FatigueAn Icy Wall (Within and Between): Relations and Compassion FatigueBundling Up: Finding Hope in Cold ClimesSurvival in Winter CountryEpilogueBibliographyIndex

The authors are Wendy Austin, Canada Research Chair (Relational Ethics), E. Sharon Brintnell, Erika Goble, Leon Kagan, Linda Kreitzer, and Brendan Leier. Scholars and/or clinicians situated primarily at the University of Alberta (Kreitzer, University of Calgary), they form an interdisciplinary group (anthropology, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, philosophy, psychology, and social work) with a deep interest in ethical, compassionate health care and the well-being of those who provide it.

This book should be required reading in the education of all health and human service professionals. Although technical and therapeutic expertise is a core foundation of competent, ethical, and safe practice, education often neglects compassion fatigue as a central aspect of human relationship. Also neglected is the meaning of human suffering-much to the consistent detriment of service providers and those for whom they care, particularly in the context of increased market-driven healthcare. This book can create the foundation for much-needed open conversations about these pressing issues. -- Elizabeth McGibbon, Ph.D., RN, editor of Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health (2012)

• Table of Contents for Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow: Canadian Health Professionals' Experience of Compassion Fatigue, by Wendy Austin, E. Sharon Brintnell, Erika Goble, Leon Kagan, Linda Kreitzer, Denise J. Larsen, and Brendan LeierThe Question of Compassion Fatigue: An IntroductionWhat Is Compassion?Differing Understandings of Compassion FatigueA New Way of Understanding Compassion FatigueThe Cold Heart: The Bodily Experience of Compassion FatigueThe Endless Winter: The Temporal Experience of Compassion FatigueLost and Alone in a Prairie Blizzard: The Experience of Space in Compassion FatigueAn Icy Wall (Within and Between): Relations and Compassion FatigueBundling Up: Finding Hope in Cold ClimesSurvival in Winter CountryEpilogueBibliographyIndex