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This study explored the effects of the supervisory relationship, as conceptualized by Bordin's working alliance, on social service workers' job satisfaction and burnout. Hierarchical linear model analyses of survey results from supervisors (n = 51) and workers (n = 80) in Healthy Families America agencies revealed that the workers' sense of rapport within the supervisory relationship is related to job satisfaction. While it was expected that the supervisory relationship would also relate to levels of burnout, no association was found in the analyses. However, strong negative correlations were found between the workers' feelings of rapport within the supervisory relationship and both emotional exhaustion and depersonalization.

This article examines whether empowerment through mediation actually produces tangible outcomes for divorcing couples in a random selection of 120 mediated and nonmediated divorce cases in Harris County, Texas. Data analysis supports the hypothesis: mediated cases result in more changes to the state‐ordered possessory arrangement governing access to children than nonmediated cases. A discussion of the significance of the findings for mediators is included.

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Public Engagement with Science calls for scientists to think more reflexively about their research, and how assumptions, power and contexts influence associated communication. To interrogate this, we utilised design to stimulate reflexive thinking about science communication through a residential ‘Engagement Incubator’ that took the form of a pop-up cardboard laundromat. Participants reported an increased appreciation for, and insight into, PES theory, and its relevance to their work. In addition, our experience of enacting PES theory, and reflexive thematic analysis of data collected through the process, deepened our own understanding of PES and reinforced our appreciation of engagement as reproductive, and inherently circular work.