The Resilient Practitioner, 3rd edition, gives students and practitioners the tools they need to create their own personal balance between caring for themselves and caring for others. This new edition includes a new chapter on resiliency, an updated self-care action plan, self-reflection exercises in each chapter, and a revised resiliency inventory for practitioners. Readers will find, however, that the new edition keeps its strong focus on research and accessible writing style. The new edition also retains its focus on establishing working alliances and charting a hopeful path for practitioners, a path that allows them to work intensely with human suffering and also have a vibrant career in the process.

About the Authors Professions Under the Resilient Practitioner Umbrella Preface Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory, 2014 version Part One 1. Caring for Others Versus Self-Care: The Great Human Drama 2. Joys, Rewards, and Gifts of Practice 3.The Cycle of Caring: Core of the Helping Professions 4. The Elevated Stressors of the Novice Practitioner 5.Hazards of Practice 6.Hemorrhaging of the Caring Self: Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, Ambiguous Endings and Professional Uncertainty Part Two 7.What is Human Resilience? 8. Sustaining the Professional Self 9.Sustaining the Personal Self 10. The Eye of the Storm Model of Practitioner Resiliency 11. The Evolving Practitioner from Early Career Anxiety to Later--Usually--Competence Thomas M. Skovholt and Michael H. Rønnestad 12. Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies of Expert Practitioners Mary Mullenbach and Thomas M. Skovholt 13. Epilogue 14. Self-Care Action Plan Acknowledgments References Index