This book aims to help students understand the nature of helping relationships and the specific skills involved in initiating and maintaining a helping relationship.

Continues to identify and evaluate the major competing theories used to guide the goals, policies, and practices of the U.S. correctional system

With brand new chapters on theory, history and globalization, this book, written within a strong human rights framework, provides students with a current and critical guide to the area

The SAGE Guide to Social Work Careers presents first-hand stories from practitioners to help inform, inspire, and guide students to become advocates for social justice issues.

This book shows youth work students and professionals how to locate their practice within the professional code of ethics

Measures for Community and Neighborhood Research is a reference guide that compiles and organizes key measures for community research, and also compiles the major measures of community practice and assesses them for reliability and validity.

Counseling Adolescents Competently is a comprehensive text for students and professionals compiling foundational and emerging skills in the counseling field.

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