The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach

Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring. It provides a complete, multi-disciplinary look at the practice and theory of mentoring and demonstrates its advantages. It brings together, for the first time, expert researchers from the three primary areas of mentoring: workplace, academy, and community. Leading scholars provide critical analysis on important literature concerning theoretical approaches and methodological issues in the field. Final section presents an integrated perspective on mentoring relationships and projects a future agenda for the field.