Resilient Practitioner Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals

The Resilient Practitioner focuses on the work of practitioners in counseling, therapy, teaching, and the health professions. These are all high-touch practitioner fields where the quality of the interaction with the client/student/patient is the key to success. To do the work well requires an optimal balance between other-care and self-care. How does one acquire this balance? This book explores elements of this question by describing: the joys and hazards of the work, the long road from novice to senior practitioner, the essence of burnout, ways to maintain the professional and personal self, methods experts use to maintain vitality, and, finally, a self-care action plan.Skovholt, Thomas M. is the author of 'Resilient Practitioner Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals', published 2000 under ISBN 9780205306114 and ISBN 020530611X.