Caring for Our Heroes
About the Show
Self Care and Compassion Fatigue
Chaplain Ronald KM Williams Garcia, MDiv., DMin(c)
God calls chaplains and Emergency Care workers to intervene in calamities and positively impact the lives of others. While there is an immense sense of satisfaction in this ministry, the frequent involvement in trauma impacts the lives of these public servants.
The eventual term for this repeated impact is burnout.[1] A more clinical term is compassion fatigue. Self-care is a proposed remedy for compassion fatigue. A recent study discovered a strong correlation between self-care and compassion fatigue.[2] However, self-care has limits. In addition, many Chaplains and Emergency Care Workers are simply remiss about their self-care practices. In many cases, there may be a need to seek the care of a professional.[3]
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[1] Jason T. Hotchkiss and Ruth Lesher, “Factors Predicting Burnout Among Chaplains: Compassion Satisfaction, Organizational Factors, and the Mediators of Mindful Self-Care and Secondary Traumatic Stress,” Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, 72 no. 2 (2018); 86–98.
[2] Masoud Kianpour, “Mental Health and Hospital Chaplaincy: Strategies of Self-Protection (Case Study: Toronto, Canada)” Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci. 7 no. 1 (2013); 69–77.
[3] Maryann Abendroth, and Jeanne Flanner, “Predicting the Risk of Compassion Fatigue.” Journal of hospice and palliative nursing: 8, no. 6 (2006): 346–356. Accessed September 2, 2023
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We will broadcast live Bi weekly on Thursdays at 7:00PM AST.
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Rev Dr. Ronald K Williams Garcia, MDiv, JD, LMFT, CCC, CCTS, CMIP
Reverend Garcia is academically trained and has been a Chaplain for over thirty years. He is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a commissioned Chaplain by the Chaplain International Fellowship. The Liberty Baptist Fellowship proudly endorses him. Ron is a trained Compassion Trauma professional and a Certified Field Traumatologist. He is also trained in several modalities of grief and Psychological response.
Ron is Afro-Boricua and has lived in Puerto Rico for several years.
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