Compassion Satisfaction:
Resources for Social Workers in British Columbia
Tools
Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Scale
Self-Compassion Scale: Short Form (SCS-SF) (Raes, 2011)
RMCG Reflecting on Core Values Activity
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Self-Assessment Questionnaire (NSI Strategies)
Books
A Rebellion of Care: Poems and Essays (Gate, 2025)
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Brown, 2012)
Self-Care in Social Work (2nd ed.): A Person-in-Environment Approach to Managing Occupational Stress and Burnout (Cox & Steiner, 2024)
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself (Tawwab, 2021)
The Internal Family Systems Workbook: A Guide to Discover your Self and Heal Your Parts (Schwartz, 2024)
The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well (Luger & Collins, 2022)
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (van Dernoot Lipsky & Burk, 2009)
Academic Articles
Never trust Anybody Who Says “I don’t need supervision”: Practitioners Beliefs about Social Worker Resilience (Beddoe et al., 2014)
The Lived Experience of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Social Workers: The Role of Moral Distress and Shame (Glassburn et al., 2025)
“It’s soul destroying to be honest”: A Qualitative Study of Morally Uninhabitable Working Environments and the Responsibilization of Healthcare Professionals Working in Concurrent Disorders (Loyal et al., 2025)
Cultivating self-compassion to improve social workers’ professional quality of life in primary healthcare (Mangoulia et al., 2025)
Experiences of Hospital Social Workers Discharging Patients into Homelessness (Morris et al, 2022)
Racial Trauma Beyond COVID-19: Insights for Supervising Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Clinicians (Seary, 2025)
A Queer and Filipino Social Worker-Researcher’s Reflexive Journey in Academia (Segui, 2026)
The Work Experiences of Social Workers: Factors Impacting Compassion Satisfaction and Workplace Stress (Senreich et al., 2020)
Swimming with the Current But Against the Tide: Reflections of an Autistic Social Worker (Guthrie, 2023)
Podcast Episodes
Combatting Compassion Fatigue: The Social Workers Survival Guide (The 5-Minute Social Worker)
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout with Cece Sykes (The One Inside: An Internal Family Systems Podcast)
Self-Care Episodes (inSocialWork Podcast)
Other
List of Counsellors in BC with Compassion Fatigue as Area of Practice (CounsellingBC)
