This guide helps faculty and student affairs practitioners better serve graduate and professional school students as they navigate what can be an isolating taxing and unfamiliar context. Providing actionable strategies as well as a common language for practitioners to advocate for themselves and for their students this book is a quick start manual that defines current issues around graduate and professional student development. Drawing together current resources and research around post-baccalaureate student outcomes this book explores the diverse student needs of graduate and professional students and provides a clear understanding of their social personal and psychological development and how to support their success. Case studies showcase specific examples of practice including a holistic development model for graduate training; integrating academic personal professional and career development needs; promising practices for engagement; a diversity equity and inclusion approach to access and outcomes; how graduate schools can be important partners to student affairs professionals; and examples of assessment in action. This book provides tools resources communication strategies and actionable theory-to-practice connections for practitioners professionals and faculty at all levels who work to support post-baccalaureate student thriving. Appendix available for download online at www. routledge. com/9780367639884 on the tab that is entitled Support Material. | A Practitioner’s Guide to Supporting Graduate and Professional Students