New Study Highlights the Importance of Mentor Attunement
Pryce, J. (2012). Mentor attunement: An approach to Successful School-based Mentoring Relationships. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 29, 285–305 Background In this study, Julia Pryce,...
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★Rising Star: Professor Julia Pryce
A conversation with Professor Julia Pryce, author of new study on mentor attunement JR (Jean Rhodes): In your study, you and your team sat in classrooms and schools and watched relationships in...
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Intentional-self regulation (ISR) skills: What is their role in youth’s...
Schmid, K.L., Phelps, E., & Lerner, R.M. (2011). Constructing positive futures: Modeling the relationship between adolescents’ hopeful future expectations and intentional self-regulation in...
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Adopted Youth: Research, Theory, and Implications for Mentoring Harold Grotevant, Ph.D. Mass, Amherst, Departments of Psychology When: Monday, April 29th, 2013 ~ 12:00-1:00pm Where: Wheatley Hall,...
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Adolescents’ Digital Media Use and Friendships
Davis, K. (2012). Friendship 2.0: Adolescents’ experiences of belonging and self-disclosure online. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 1527-1536. Summarized by UMB clinical psychology doctoral student, Stella...
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News Flash: Boys and Girls Take Different Paths to Empathy
Van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., De Wied, M., Hawk, S., Van Lier, P. & Meeus, W. (2014). Perspective taking and empathic concern in adolescence: Gender differences in developmental changes....
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Schools That Separate the Child From the Trauma (With implications for...
By DAVID BORNSTEIN (NYTimes) Recently, I reported on the damaging effects that prolonged stress can have on young children who lack adequate protection from adults. Over the past 15 years, researchers...
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The long and winding path to adulthood
Editor’s Note: Walk into any bus terminal, coffee shop, library, or other public venue and you are likely to see crowds of young adults immersed in private universes of music and social media. Although...
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Be aware mentors: Unspoken or otherwise, kids sense their parents’ discord
Written by Cindy Lamothe, The Atlantic Summarized by Justin Preston Family conflicts are communicated in a wide variety of ways. It isn’t limited to angry shouting matches between parents. Silent,...
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Youth aging out of foster care may have a more difficult time forming bonds...
Thompson, A. E., Greeson, J. K. P., & Brunsink, A. M. (2016). Natural mentoring among older youth in and aging out of foster care: A systematic review. Children and Youth Services Review, 61,...
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New research highlights role of mentoring in positive emotional development...
Exploring relationships among boys and men: A retrospective, qualitative study of a multi-year community-based group mentoring program Mark J Van Ryzin, Oregon Research Institute Secondary Education,...
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Without mentoring, girls lose interest in STEM fields
Stoeger, H., Duan, X., Schimer, S., Greindl, T., & Ziegler, A. (2013). The effectiveness of a one-year online mentoring program for girls in STEM. Computers & Education, 69, 408-418. Summarized...
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The critical ingredient of youth programs –natural mentors
Schwartz, S. E. O., Chan, C. S., Rhodes, J. E. & Scales, P. C. (2013). Community developmental assets and positive youth development: The role of natural mentors. Research in Human Development,...
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How The Barber, And Other Caring Adults, Help Kids Succeed
LA Johnson/NPR Anya Kamenetz, nprED In a working-class city in southeast Michigan there’s a barbershop where kids get a $2 discount for reading a book aloud to their barber. “Any help these kids can...
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What are the keys to successful mentoring? New study has some answers
by Jean Rhodes and Elizabeth Raposa In a forthcoming article in the American Journal of Community Psychology we reported on some interesting findings that have direct implications for mentoring...
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Believing people can change sparks cooperation with others
Posted by Alex Shashkevich-Stanford, futurity.org Jewish-Israelis and Palestinian-Israelis have spent decades in conflict over disputed territories. The mutual distrust and skepticism have built to a...
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Formal mentoring program helps boost executive function skills in youth
Morgan, C., Sibthorp, J., & Tsethlikai, M. (2016). Fostering self-regulation skills in youth: examining the effects of a mentoring curriculum in a summer recreation program. Leisure sciences,...
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Mentor Toolkit: Open doors for mentees with an ecomap
#EverydayMentoring Weekly Tip from The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern PA Helping youth network can be frustrating when you aren’t sure how to connect kids to key people who can help them...
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New York Times’ David Brooks: The power of a dinner table
Written by David Brooks, New York Times Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson have a son named Santi, who went to Washington, D.C., public schools. Santi had a friend who sometimes went to school hungry. So...
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Got gratitude? New research shows that doing makes us more grateful than having
Posted on Futurity by Rebecca Valli, Cornell A new study, published in the journal Emotion, suggests many of us feel more thankful for things we experience rather than things we own—and that the...
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