Entries by Emily.Buss001@umb.edu

New Certificate Program: Community Health Worker Therapeutic Mentoring — Now Open for Fall 2026 Enrollment

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UMass Boston’s Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring is offering a first-of-its-kind opportunity for mentoring professionals looking to deepen their practice and expand their credentials. The Community Health Worker (CHW) Therapeutic Mentoring Certificate is an 80-hour, state-certified training program that prepares participants to work as therapeutic mentors with youth under age 21 in the Massachusetts behavioral health […]

New Study Finds Cousin Relationships Are a Hidden Source of Support for Young Adults

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Hessel, H., & Christiansen, R. J. (2025). Close but not too close? A qualitative study of how U.S. emerging adults describe their cousin relationships. Adolescents, 5(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/adolescents5010008 Introduction Family research has long centered on parents and siblings, largely overlooking cousin relationships. Hessel and Christiansen (2025) argue this is a meaningful gap, given that emerging […]

Ten simple rules for mentoring historically excluded students.

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Joker, R., Osadchuk, L. C., Bianchi, T., Quinn, G., Knight, C., & Bruna, S. (2026). Ten simple rules for mentoring historically excluded students. College Teaching, 74(2), 168–174. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2024.2319175 ABOUT THIS STUDY Mentoring relationships can be especially consequential for students from historically excluded groups, yet prevailing mentoring norms in higher education often reflect white, middle class […]

How the Gender Mentoring Program Is Dismantling Institutional Gender Inequality

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Pellizzoni, S., De Bonis, G., Masullo, M. R., & Gargano, A. (2026). Mentoring as a transformative educational practice: Gender processes, inclusive leadership, and institutional change at INFN. Introduction Gender inequality in research institutions is structural—built into hiring practices, recognition patterns, and access to leadership—and recruiting more women does not fix it. Pellizzoni and colleagues (2026) […]

AI-Supported Mentoring for Disadvantaged Learners

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Zhao, Y. (2026). Unlocking potential in underachieving learners: Self-regulation development through AI-supported e-mentoring among socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1805629. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1805629 Introduction Persistent academic underachievement among socioeconomically disadvantaged students is rarely a matter of intellectual capacity alone—it is a matter of education inequity. Unequal academic support and guidance among economically disadvantaged fosters lower […]

New Findings Show Reflective Co-Mentoring Drives Problem Solving in Under an Hour

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Bray, R., & Wilson, S. (2026). The development, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative co-mentoring technique. International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 24(1), 239–251. https://doi.org/10.24384/46hf-4k98 Introduction Bray and Wilson (2026) introduce Reflective Co-Mentoring—a brief, structured approach to professional reflection developed at Argyll College in Scotland. The initiative emerged from earlier institutional research identifying […]

Findings Reveal Three Reasons That Mentoring Matches End Early

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Werntz, A., Jasman, M., Cherry, J., Borer, A., Johnston, A., Meany, M., Stettin, J., McCarron, T., & Rhodes, J. E. (2026). Beyond the mentor-youth dyad: The role of parents and mentoring program staff in predicting volunteer mentor persistence. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2026.2632131 Introduction Youth mentoring programs invest heavily in recruiting volunteers, yet […]

New Study Maps How 10 Countries Structure Student Mentoring

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Risdiyanto, R., Hernawan, A. H., Johan, R. C., & Fadlilah, A. F. (2026). A comparative analysis of the student mentoring system in secondary education. Inovasi Kurikulum, 23(2), 361–376. https://doi.org/10.64014/jik.v23i2.269 Introduction Secondary school students worldwide navigate academic responsibilities and the psychosocial toll of adolescence. Digital overload and AI-integration in learning environments complicate these issues, requiring greater […]

Profiles in Mentoring: Dr. Catherine Comfort on Fostering Social Capital in Young Mentees

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Dr. Catherine Comfort is Academic Lead for Access, Participation and Success in the Faculty of Business and Law at the Open University, where her research explores the transformative power of mentoring relationships, social capital, and youth wellbeing. A practicing youth mentor since 2018 and member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Mentoring, she brings […]

When Mentors Fail: New Study Reframes Coaching Breakdowns as Consumer Dissatisfaction

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Aron, D., Battistoni, M., & Bonilla, A. (2026). Coach hurt: Understanding service failures in coaching and mentoring relationships through the lens of consumer dissatisfaction. Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, 39(1), 92–107. https://jcsdcb.com Introduction Coaching and mentoring are valuable professional development pathways. Organizations invest significantly in these relationships, viewing them as an organizational […]