Preventing compassion fatigue is crucial to emergency service workers’ mental health

9th May 2024Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

Victoria Police Detective Sergeant Peter Romanis believes that ‘compassion fatigue’ – a combination of accumulated secondary traumatic stress and burnout – poses the most significant threat to the mental health of emergency services workers, and hope a new report detailing the findings of his research into the issue will prove beneficial to officers and staff, as he explained to Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons.

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Preventing compassion fatigue is crucial to emergency service workers’ mental health

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