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The scope and depth of scholarship and application pertinent to youth mentoring is masterfully integrated in this significant and timely resource. This handbook is a vital reference for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with the promotion of positive youth development. -- Richard M. Lerner 20040930 Handbook of Youth Mentoring provides excellent and remarkably comprehensive coverage of the theory, research, and practice. This volume provides researchers and practitioners with the most up-to-date knowledge on effective mentoring. It thoroughly covers different types of mentoring relationships, for different groups of youth, and in different institutional and program contexts. A must-have for anyone wanting to be up-to-date on mentoring. -- Reed Larson 20040930 In my opinion, this book is a must for the field. I'm pleased that these two editors have taken on the challenge of pulling it together. They are quite ideally suited for the task... I give it the very highest rating. -- Michael Nakkula 20040930 Chapters offer researchers, practitioners, and policy makers recommendations and information encompassing many different types of mentoring relationships. They also address a variety of institutional and program contexts, from those such as Big Brothers and Big Sisters to the less formal, including faith-based and after-school youth programs... This volume presents large amounts of information in a well organized, readable manner. -- P.M. Socoski CHOICE 20060201 The Handbook of Youth Mentoring presents the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the rising number of nonprofit, business, and government mentoring initiatives. With practical recommendations for policymakers, practitioners, and researcher, as well as discussion of formal and informal mentoring programs, editors DuBois and Karcher explore the important relationships that affect millions of young people. -- Ed. Summer 2006 20060807 This book is therefore timely in that an urgent need exists for a clear sighted, comprehensive and inclusive unpacking of key themes and debates around mentoring -YOUTH & POLICY -- Kate Philip Youth & Policy 20071008

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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.

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