Thomas M. Skovholt - The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals ... Historical, and Cultural Perspectives)

The Resilient Practitioner is a must read for every practitioner. Skovholt gives clear explanations of practitioner stress and provides remedies that can be implemented. I really enjoyed the real-life examples and was impressed by the extensive research that forms the background for the book. Skovholt is a master teacher and practitioner. I recommend that practitioners keep this book close by and reread it throughout their careers.

Clara Hill, PhD, University of Maryland

This is a wonderful book that merits careful reading by all helping professionals. Well written, engrossing, and amply documented, The Resilient Practitioner is recommended with unqualified enthusiasm.

Ted Packard, PhD, University of Utah; President, American Board of Professional Psychology

In this remarkable book, the author is eloquent in his perceptive description of the demands on the practitioner. At several points, I felt like I was reading from the pages of my own personal journal. This is a wonderfully stimulating book!

William Parham, PhD, University of CaliforniaLos Angeles; Associate Director, Counseling Services

Over the past ten years, I have been asked by publishers to review hundreds of manuscripts. This is one of the best written! The author has a very engaging writing style and his humanity permeates the content. The book has a solid scholarly foundation yet is very accessible, very alive, and rich with vivid, real-life illustrations. What a wonderful job!

Mark Kiselica, PhD, The College of New Jersey

At all career stages, caring professionals will find this book to be a rich resource of encouragement for professional development. It is a bountiful gift to us all.

Jaquie Resnick, PhD, University of Florida

This visionary work is essential reading for practitioners and students in the helping fields. With poetic wisdom and academic clarity, Tom Skovholt addresses the issues involved in sustaining professional validity.

Sally Hage, PhD, State University of New York

In The Resilient Practitioner, Tom Skovholt demonstrates a compassionate appreciation for the complexities of the helping fields. Clearly, he has experienced these development challenges, and has listened and guided well as others have navigated these challenging tasks. Now, in this book, his wisdom can be shared with many other high-touch professionals.

Kate F. Hays, PhD, Sport Psychologist; Director, The Performing Edge, Toronto, Canada

Tom Skovholt has identified precisely the difficult career issues for practitioners in the helping professions. He specifies particular steps in balancing care for others and self, sustaining the professional and personal selves, and preventing burnout. Skovholt stimulated me to consider self-care in a whole new waynot as a narcissistic withdrawal from responsibility, but as a means to sustain intellectual excitement and emotional commitment to those with whom I work.

Susan Neufeldt, PhD, Clinical Supervisor, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara

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