The pursuit of excellence in care, including compassion, should lie at the heart of all health and social care practice, yet compassionate healthcare can be challenging for practitioners to deliver day after day in a context of tight budgets and targets. This text compiles what we know about how healthcare professionals can look after themselves to order to maintain and develop their compassionate healthcare practice. Supporting compassionate healthcare practice explores thinking around stress management, resilience, wellbeing and positivity to help understand how all health care professionals can keep close to the values, attitudes and attributes that brought them into the caring professions. It presents and critiques the evidence base for these key concepts, using numerous case studies and examples as illustration and developing a framework - RESPECT - for practice. This innovative volume is essential reading for all healthcare students, academics and professionals interested in improving both the quality of care and the wellbeing of patients and practitioners alike.