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Health Justice
February 2024
Research Institute Child Development and Education, Preventive Youth Care Programme Group, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127, 1018WS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Background: The societal costs associated with juvenile delinquency and reoffending are high, emphasising the need for effective prevention strategies. A promising approach is Youth-Initiated Mentoring (YIM). In YIM, professionals support youths in selecting a non-parental adult from within their social network as their mentor.
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January 2024
Department of Youth and Family, Utrecht University, PO box 80140, Utrecht, 3508TC, the Netherlands.
Background: Children from multi-problem families have an increased risk for experiencing mental health problems. These families face problems in several domains that are often found to be chronic and intergenerational. Yet, the effects of mental health care for youths from multi-problem families are small at best, urging research on new treatment programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Community Psychol
November 2023
Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, 8, Czech Republic.
Mentors' initial perceptions of the mentoring role in formal youth mentoring bonds; and the subsequent characteristics of autonomy support or autonomy control in mentoring interactions developed by mentors after 5 months of mentoring experience are discussed in this paper. The data is drawn from a longitudinal phenomenological study conducted in the Czech mentoring scheme between 2010 and 2017. In-depth semi-structured interviews were collected with 10 mentoring matches over 1 year of mentoring involvement.
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August 2021
Department of Human Behavior, School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
J Community Psychol
September 2021
Department of Social Work, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, California, USA.
Youth-initiated mentoring (YIM) is an approach to mentor recruitment that represents a significant departure from how formal mentoring typically has been conceptualized and carried out, most notably by having youth identify their own mentors. Despite enthusiasm for YIM, implementation can require significant shifts in program practices. Given the limited resources with which most mentoring programs have to work, it is important to discern staff investment in YIM and what it takes for programs to implement this approach.
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