Mentoring Practice

Here we provide the latest science of different approaches to mentoring practice, from how to encourage engagement to managing closures —and everything in between.

Two people having a conversation. Mentors, mentees. Self-disclosure.

New research looks at mentor self-disclosure in mentoring pairs

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Dutton, H., Bullen, P., & Deane, K. (2019). "It is OK to…
Mentoring program success. Helping others achieve their goals.

Perpetuating success: How C.J. Anderson’s foundation is seeking to bring resources to low-income youth

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By Iman Rastegari, Leah Shafer at Usable Knowledge  For children…
Mentor speaking to mentee. Mentoring, youth mentoring.

Consider the whole person: How to improve your mentoring by thinking holistically

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By Rick Woolworth, HBR  Editor's note: It's easy to perceive…
Mentor helping up a mentee. Mentoring, youth mentoring. Helping hand.

How we can make mentoring programs better for the children of incarcerated parents

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Stump, K. N., Kupersmidt, J. B., Stelter, R. L. and Rhodes, J.…
Food and its impact on youth. Mentoring, youth mentoring.

How fast food companies are priming your mentee’s brain to eat poorly

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How teens’ brains respond to TV advertisements for fast food…
Student with teacher. Mentoring, youth mentoring, mentors.

Mentoring underrepresented minority students

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By Amanda Cornwall, Inside Higher Ed So … I’m white, writes…
Teens, social status, health. This image represents someone's subjective placement of social status. Mentoring related.

How a teen’s sense of family status might be connected to their physical health

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By Pat Harriman, Futurity An adolescent’s sense of their…
Kids on smartphones. Researchers are curious whether kids are aware of their rights in research done through technology.

The rights of adolescents as research participants in a digital age

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By Diana J. Meter, Utah State University for SRA Ecological…
Boy in classroom being mentored

How this understudied aspect of a mentoring relationship might influence its quality

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Preston, E. G., & Raposa, E. B. (2019). A Two-way Street:…