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.

• Provides a complete, multi-disciplinary look at the practice and theory of mentoring and demonstrates its advantages

• 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