Effectiveness of a mobile application the emotion-focused training for helping professionals in reducing compassion fatigue and enhancing compassion satisfaction and resilience

Objective: The increasing incidence of compassion fatigue and declining compassion satisfaction among helping professionals underscores the critical need for accessible and empirically supported interventions. Mobile applications represent a viable solution due to their broad accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. Methods: mobile application in targeting multiple dimensions of psychological well-being, including compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, resilience, compassion for others, compassion from others, self-compassion, and self-criticism. A total of 190 helping professionals from Slovakia participated in a 14-day intervention, with assessments administered at both baseline and postintervention. Results: Despite the relatively brief intervention period, participants exhibited statistically significant improvements in compassion satisfaction, resilience, compassion for others, compassion from others, and self-compassion. Additionally, significant decreases were observed in levels of compassion fatigue and self-criticism. These findings provide preliminary support for the application's potential as an effective tool for enhancing psychological resilience and emotional well-being among helping professionals. Conclusion: To improve the generalizability of these results, future research should examine the intervention's efficacy across culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Moreover, methodological robustness could be strengthened in subsequent studies through the inclusion of control groups and randomized controlled trial designs.