Ideal for those already familiar with basic Excel features, this updated Third Edition shows readers how to utilize Microsoft (R) Excel's functions and Analysis ToolPak to answer simple and complex questions about data.

A practical book that shows how both Excel (R) and SPSS (R) can be used for analyzing data for human service evaluation.

This book adopts a unique strengths-based approach in teaching students to focus on the positive attributes of individual clients and incorporate those strengths, along with other essential cultural considerations, into their diagnosis and treatment.

This book provides students and managers alike with the guidance, tools, and examples needed to develop leadership talent and inspire performance.

This book, based on experiential framework, aims to bridge solid research and empirical support with clear dialogue, exercises and connections back to theory. The book will cover the process of groups and group leadership, theories of group counseling, methods of practice, and direct experiences, cases, and dialogues of groups in practice.

Using cutting-edge research, this text lays a theoretical foundation to help students and practitioners understand the grounding and theory behind strengths-based therapy and then presents a model for use with a variety of client types/settings.

This book outlines and explains, in detail, the necessary steps in designing, conducting, implementing, and reporting an action research study with a solid mixed-methods foundation.

Helps counselors in training learn essential skills for consultation positions for those who opt not to go into private practice. This title also helps students understand the process and stages of consultation as well as some key skills such as writing proposals, conducting workshops, drafting contracts, fees, and reporting.

By presenting the differences as well as the underlying commonalities of institutional theories, this book presents a cohesive view of the many flavours and colours of institutionalism. It evaluates and clarifies developments in both theory and research while identifying future research directions.