Handbook of Youth Mentoring (The SAGE Program on Applied Developmental Science) [Hardcover]

David L. DuBois (Author), Michael J. Karcher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 8, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0761929770 | ISBN-13: 978-0761929772 | Edition: 1

The Handbook of Youth Mentoring provides the first scholarly and comprehensive synthesis of current theory, research, and practice in the field of youth mentoring. Editors David L. DuBois and Michael J. Karcher, along with leading experts in the field, 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. The Handbook explores not only mentoring that occurs within formal programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, but also examines natural mentoring relationships that youth establish with adults outside of such programs.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"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 )

"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 )

"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 )

"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 )

"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 )

"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 )

About the Author

David L. DuBois, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Division of Community Health Sciences within 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.  He has authored numerous peer-reviewed studies of youth mentoring, including a meta-analytic review of the literature on the effectiveness of youth mentoring programs.  In 2003, he co-chaired the National Research Summit on Mentoring.  Along with Jean Rhodes, he then co-authored the National Research Agenda for Youth Mentoring that emerged from the Summit.  Currently, he is conducting research on youth mentoring with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the William T. Grant Foundation.  He serves as a consultant to numerous local, state, and national mentoring organizations and has been a mentor himself in a Big Brothers/Big Sisters program.

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 624 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (March 8, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761929770
• ISBN-13: 978-0761929772
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,198,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael J. Karcher, Ed.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he coordinates the School Counseling Training Program. He received a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University (1997) and a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin (1999). He conducts research on school-based and cross-age peer mentoring as well as on adolescent connectedness and pair counseling. He authored the Cross-age Mentoring Program (CAMP) program and materials being published by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. In addition to conducting research on cross-age peer mentoring, he conducted one of the first large-scale school-based mentoring studies, the Study of Mentoring in the Learning Environment (SMILE, 2003-2006) funded by the William T. Grant Foundation (www.utsasmile.org), which focused on its effects of adult-with-youth mentoring for Latino youth. Along with David L. DuBois, Professor Karcher edited the Handbook of Youth Mentoring (2005, Sage; second edition in preparation); co-edited with Michael Nakkula, "Play, talk, learn: Promising practices in youth mentoring" (Jossey-Bass, 2010); and is currently co-authoring a book on school-based mentoring with Carla Herrera entitled "Better together: Befriending youth through school-based mentoring" (2011, Harvard University Press). He is on the editorial board for five national journals and the research and advisory boards of BBBSA, MENTOR, and Mentors, Inc. He lives in his hometown of San Antonio with his wife Sara, their sons Reed and Jack, and two rather large dogs.

Additional information can be found at www.schoolconnectedness.com (on adolescent connectedness), www.schoolbasedmentoring.com (on the SMILE study) and www.professorkarcher.com (resource for articles and information).