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.

Study Highlights the Importance of Mentor Attunement

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Pryce, J. (2013). Mentor attunement: An approach to Successful…

What metric should we use to measure program success?

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Let’s focus on how large program effects are, not how probable…

Policy Corner: Janet Forbush on latest policy implications for mentoring

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Written by Janet Forbush, Senior Advisor with the Center for…

Creating birds of similar feathers: How emphasizing similarities can improve matches

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Editors note: This study has important implications for mentoring…

A conversation with Professor Nancy Deutsch

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Editors note: Several of the studies we've highlighted in…

Getting active can help boost mentors’ and mentees’ happiness: New research

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Written by Justin Preston The benefits of exercise in helping…

Policy Corner: March Updates with Janet Forbush

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Written by Janet Forbush, Senior Advisor with the Center for…

Perfectionism: What it is and 5 ways mentors can help their mentees shake it

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Written by Justin Preston “Anything worth doing, is worth…

Support in transition: The characteristics of natural mentors for youth in foster care

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Duke, T., Farruggia, S. P., & Germo, G. R. (2017). “I don’t…