Editors Blog

Chronicle editor, Jean Rhodes, offers her perspectives on topics related to mentoring research, practice, and policies.

Mentoring, Task Shifting, and the Paraprofessional Revolution

mentors trained as paraprofessionals could be pivotal in providing accessible mental health support for young people, reducing barriers, and helping mentees engage with professional services more readily. By equipping mentors with structured training and aligning them with best practices, youth mentoring programs could meet an urgent need for accessible, scalable mental health interventions.

Three Essential Lessons From Our Social Capital Research

By Jean Rhodes In 2022, researcher Raj Chetty and his team published…

Tell Me More: What Research on Listening and Curiosity Tells Mentors

By Jean Rhodes An interesting study published late last year…

Warmth Is the Engine: What a Global Study of Youth Thriving Tells Us About Mentoring

By Jean Rhodes A rigorous new study, published in the Journal…

The Case for Credible Messengers

Jean Rhodes Credible messenger mentoring is a community-rooted…
Two people having a conversation. Mentors, mentees. Self-disclosure.

How Real Conversations Can Change LIves

By Jean Rhodes A new study Lauren Schudde, published in The…

The Flipside of Microaggressions: How Micro-Recognitions Change Everything in Mentoring

By Jean Rhodes When Professor Becky Wai-Ling Packard joined…

The Gift Goes Both Ways: What a New Meta-Analysis Reveals About Purpose, Meaning, and Older Adult Mentors

By Jean Rhodes The mentoring field has long understood…

No One Should Leave Empty-Handed: Single-Session Approaches for Youth on Waitlists

By Jean Rhodes When a young person and their family reach…

Important New Evaluation Highlights the Promise (and Limits) of CBT-Informed Mentoring

By Jean Rhodes A new randomized controlled trial of the YMCA's…