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Informationen zum Autor David L. DuBois , Ph.D., is a Professor of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his doctorate in clinical-community psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. DuBois has conducted extensive research on youth mentoring with funding from a variety of sources, including the National Institutes of Health, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Institute of Education Sciences. His most recent research includes a comprehensive update of his ground-breaking meta-analytic review of youth mentoring program effectiveness first published more than a decade ago. He is also co-author of After-School Centers and Youth Development: Case Studies of Success and Failure (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Dr. DuBois is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Society for Community Research and Action and a past Distinguished Fellow of the William T. Grant Foundation. He consults widely to mentoring programs nationally and internationally. Michael J. Karcher , Ed.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He received a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University and a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He conducts research on school-based and cross-age peer mentoring as well as on adolescent connectedness and pair counseling. He currently conducts the Study of Mentoring in the Learning Environment (SMILE), which is a three-year research project funded by the William T. Grant Foundation to examine the effects of school-based mentoring. Klappentext This thoroughly updated Second Edition of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring presents the only comprehensive synthesis of current theory, research, and practice in the field of youth mentoring. Editors David L. DuBois and Michael J. Karcher gather leading experts in the field to offer critical and informative analyses of the full spectrum of topics that are essential to advancing our understanding of the principles for effective mentoring of young people. This volume includes twenty new chapter topics and eighteen completely revised chapters based on the latest research on these topics. Each chapter has been reviewed by leading practitioners, making this handbook the strongest bridge between research and practice available in the field of youth mentoring. Zusammenfassung A state-of-the art compilation of the research! practice and application of best practices in the field of youth mentoring Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I. INTRODUCTION 1. Youth Mentoring in Contemporary Perspective - David L. DuBois and Michael J. Karcher PART II. FRAMEWORKS AND FOUNDATIONS 2. Mentoring and Positive Youth Development - Richard M. Lerner, Christopher M. Napolitano, Michelle J. Boyd, Megan K. Mueller, and Kristina S. Callina 3. Mentoring and Prevention Science - Timothy A. Cavell and L. Christian Elledge PART III. MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS 4. Assessing Mentoring Relationships - Michael J. Nakkula and John T. Harris 5. Mentoring Activities and Interactions - Michael J. Karcher and Keoki Hansen 6. Goals in Mentoring Relationships - Fabricio E. Balcazar and Christopher B. Keys 7. Mentoring Relationships in Development Perspective - Gil G. Noam, Tina Malti, and Michael J. Karcher 8. A Biological Perspective on Positive Adult-Youth Relationships - Amber L. Allison and Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff 9. Social Networks and Mentoring - Thomas E. Keller and Jennifer E. Blakeslee PART IV. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES 10. Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Mentoring Relationships - Bernadette Sánchez, Yarí Colón-Torres, Rachel Feuer, Katrina E. Roundfield, and Luciano Berardi 11. Gender in Mentoring Relationships - Belle ...
