Entries by Emily.Buss001@umb.edu

Profiles in Mentoring: Jaimie Stickl Haugen on The Student Belonging Scale

Jaimie Stickl Haugen, PhD, is a clinical associate professor in Counselor Education at William & Mary, where her research bridges school counseling and child mental health. As a licensed counselor in New York and Colorado, her work centers on culturally responsive assessment to advance measurement, student belonging, and youth suicide prevention, with scholarship in leading […]

The Shifting Social Web: How Adolescent Relationships Change

Brehm, M. V., Melton, T. N., & Deutsch, N. L. (2025). Adolescent peer and adult relationships across time and transition: A longitudinal, mixed-methods study. Journal of Adolescent Research, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584251377437 Introduction Supportive relationships are critical for adolescents, but peer and non-parental adult ties shift during development. Guided by the webs of support theory, which emphasizes the […]

Learning to Lead with Humility: Insights from Student Mentors in India

Kumar, A. T., & Prieto-Flores, Ò. (2025). “I am not any greater than you are”: Cultivation of humility in higher education through mentoring. Innovative Higher Education, 50, 947–965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-024-09759-9 Introduction Kumar and Prieto-Flores (2025) explored how humility—often misunderstood as weakness—functions as a strength in higher education mentoring. Grounded in the HEXACO (Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, […]

Mentoring for Minds: Can We Teach Leaders Emotional Intelligence?

Prummer, K., Human-Vogel, S., Graham, M. A., & Pittich, D. (2024). The role of mentoring in developing leaders’ emotional intelligence: Exploring mentoring types, emotional intelligence, organizational factors, and gender. Frontiers in Education, 9, 1393660. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1393660 Introduction Prummer and colleagues (2024) examined how mentoring contributes to the development of emotional intelligence (EI) among vocational education and […]

Equipping Educators: PBL Training and Mentoring for Prospective Teachers

Zahroh, U., Darmayanti, R., Choirudin, C., Soebagyo, R. I., & Nalarsih, R. T. (2023). Project-Based Learning training and assistance for prospective high school teachers. Jurnal Inovasi dan Pengembangan Hasil Pengabdian Masyarakat, 1(2), 115–121. https://doi.org/10.61650/jip-dimas.v1i2.237 Introduction Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a critical pedagogy for developing student skills, but prospective teachers often require support to implement it […]

Profiles in Mentoring: Dr. Alison Glover on Mentor Effectiveness in Teacher Education

Alison Glover, PhD, is a researcher for the Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Program in Wales, supporting all aspects of research activity across the program. Dr Glover’s research spans Welsh education reform, gender equality in STEM, and modern language learning, with current interests in Initial Teacher Education—particularly mentoring, partnership working, and reflective practice. We recently had […]

Beyond the Stigma: Peer Mentors Support At-Risk Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth

Tran, J. T., Webster, J., Wolfe, J. R., Ben Nathan, J., Mayinja, L., Kautz, M., Oquendo, M. A., Brown, G. K., Mandell, D., Mowery, D., Bauermeister, J. A., & Brown, L. A. (2025). Experiences of peer mentoring sexual and gender minority emerging adults who are at risk for suicide: Mixed methods study. JMIR Formative Research, […]

Turning Evidence into Action: New Insights Bridge the Research-Practice Gap

Griffith, A. N., Pryce, J., DuBois, D. L., Brezina, T., Stewart, K. E., & Garringer, M. (2025). Supplementing program profiles in evidence clearinghouses with insights for practice: A qualitative investigation of application to youth mentoring programs in CrimeSolutions. Prevention Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-025-01841-8 Introduction Evidence-based repositories (e.g., CrimeSolutions.gov) are designed to help practitioners select effective programs. However, […]

The 10 Commandments of Coaching: Validating Best Practices for Student Career Programs

Jones, J., & Smith, H. A. (2022). A comparative study of formal coaching and mentoring programmes in higher education. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 11(2), 213–231. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMCE-03-2021-0054 Introduction Jones and colleagues (2022) evaluated formal coaching and mentoring programs in UK Higher Education (HE). The study’s aim was to establish a structured, evidence-based […]

Healing Through Helping: How Peer Mentoring Rewrites Stories of Trauma

Douglas, L. J., Jackson, D., Woods, C., & Usher, K. (2019). Rewriting stories of trauma through peer-to-peer mentoring for and by at-risk young people. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(3), 744–756. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12579 Introduction Douglas and colleagues (2019) explored how previously at-risk young people who have experienced trauma are motivated to mentor peers facing similar […]