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1. The Developing Practitioner

   Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counselors

   By Michael Helge Ronnestad, Thomas Skovholt

   This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional development of counselors and therapists over the career lifespan. Drawing on their own extensive experience as psychotherapists, supervisors, teachers, and researchers, as well as from their own extensive study of the topic,...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Resilient Practitioner

   Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals, Second Edition

   By Thomas M. Skovholt, Michelle J. Trotter-Mathison

   Series: Counseling and Psychotherapy: Investigating Practice from Scientific, Historical, and Cultural Perspectives

   Therapists and other helping professionals, such as teachers, doctors and nurses, social workers, and clergy, work in highly demanding fields and can suffer from burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary stress. This happens when they give more attention to their clients’ well being than their own...

   Published December 15th 2010 by Routledge
3. Voices from the Field

   Defining Moments in Counselor and Therapist Development

   Edited by Michelle Trotter-Mathison, Julie M. Koch, Sandra Sanger, Thomas M. Skovholt

   All professional counselors and therapists can identify a number of turning points in their careers – moments, interactions, or processes – that led to key realizations regarding their practice with clients, work with students, or self-understanding. This book is a collection of such turning...

   Published March 15th 2010 by Routledge