Compassionate Care and Compassion Fatigue in CAMHS

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.25579
In this In Conversation podcast, we are joined by consultant clinical psychologist, Dr. Lucy Maddox. Lucy is currently researching compassionate care and compassion fatigue in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and is also passionate about the wider dissemination of psychology ideas.
Lucy has published several books, the most recent being ‘A Year to Change Your Mind’.
Discussion points include:

• What is ‘compassionate care’ and what does this look like in CAMHS?
• A definition for ‘compassion fatigue’ and how this differs from ‘burnout’ and trauma.
• How compassion fatigue manifests in CAMHS settings, and the impact, and the role of the pandemic.
• What organisations and individuals can do to mitigate compassion fatigue.
• The message to policymakers to foster compassionate care and reduce compassion fatigue in CAMHS.
• Why it is important to disseminate psychology ideas to the wider public.
• Insight into Lucy’s new book, ‘A Year in to Change Your Mind’.