Entries by Jean Rhodes

Marty Martinez’ Top Mentoring Moments

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by Marty Martinez Throughout my life, I’ve been lucky enough to have had mentors in my life as well as to be a mentor to others.  I’d like to share some of these relationships in my Top Ten Mentoring Moments!  Mentoring Moment #10 At 14 years of age, my mother had me involved in Latino youth leadership programs. She believed, […]

What clients find helpful in psychotherapy: Implications for mentoring relationships

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Levitt, H., Butler, M., & Hill, T. (2006). What clients find helpful in psychotherapy: Developing principles for facilitating moment-to-moment change. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53 (3), 314-324. Editor’s Note: The field of mentoring can learn a lot from research on other helping professions. With this in mind, Laura surveyed the literature on psychotherapy relationships.   […]

MENTOR Joins Forces with LinkedIn to Mobilize Members to Mentor

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(Boston, MA) – LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with 380 million members worldwide, is leveraging its powerful social media platform and community to mobilize members to mentor. MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) is proud to team up with LinkedIn on this initiative to elevate the impact of mentoring relationships and […]

Two Days Later: Adolescents’ Conflicts With Family Spill Over to School, Vice Versa

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Summarized from Child Development, Family Conflict, Mood, and Adolescents’ Daily School Problems: Moderating Roles of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms by Timmons, AC, and Margolin, G (University of Southern California). Copyright 2014 The Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. All rights reserved. The lives of adolescents at home and at school may seem quite separate, […]

Social 20-year-olds are more satisfied at 50

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Posted by Monique Patenaude-U. Rochester on July 24, 2015 The quantity of social interactions a person has at 20—and the quality of social relationships that person has at age 30—may increase well-being later in life and perhaps help people live longer. “In fact,” says Cheryl Carmichael, the study’s lead author, who conducted the research as a […]

Wanted: Regular Janes and Joes for Midlands Mentoring Partnership

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By Nancy Gaarder / World-Herald staff writer If Tom Osborne and Kent Pekel were to write a classified ad for mentors, it would probably read something like this: Wanted: Regular Janes and Joes. Superheros need not apply. Mentoring is one of the best ways to turn around lives, and prospective mentors need not be intimidated, […]