New to This Edition:

• Chapter on mindfulness and self-compassion.
• Increased emphasis on simple, real-time self-care activities.
• New examples from additional master therapists and hundreds of workshop participants.
• Up-to-date research findings on therapist stress and resilience.
• Discussions of competence constellations, building on self-care strengths, moral stress, deliberate practice, presession preparation, journaling, and multiculturalism

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"This book is a remarkable achievement in therapist self-renewal. It promotes self-care through an impressive synthesis of research literature, clinical wisdom, therapist experience, and personal disclosures. The second edition includes innovative information on mindfulness, self-compassion, and multiculturalism. Additionally, it offers new self-care examples from hundreds of practitioners, including eight master therapists. As a full-time psychotherapist and a clinical professor, I strongly recommend this book to current and future clinicians."

--Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD, private practice, Washington, DC; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University

“Leaving It at the Office is a very well-written, engaging, and thought-provoking book. The authors’ style is conversational, at times humorous, and always compassionate. As experienced psychotherapists and researchers, Norcross and VandenBos are open in sharing their own perspectives and anecdotes from their lives and in acknowledging not just the importance, but also the challenges, of engaging in self-care. Further, they are adept at integrating information from a wide range of sources and presenting it in an accessible, relatable, and encouraging manner. In fact, the book’s title doesn’t seem to do the book justice in terms of reflecting its comprehensiveness, its optimistic focus, and its overall potential for influencing the professional and personal lives of practicing psychotherapists….A book that is appropriate (I might even suggest ‘a must-read’) for practicing psychotherapists from diverse educational backgrounds and theoretical perspectives. This book also has much to offer psychotherapists-in-training and with the increased emphasis on developing self-care skills in graduate education, this could be a very beneficial book to include in the curriculum of graduate programs.”

—Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy