Play, Talk, Learn: Promising Practices in Youth Mentoring

Contributions to this volume are:

• Michael J. Karcher and Michael J. Nakkula: Youth mentoring with a balanced focus, shared purpose, and collaborative interactions
• Thomas Keller and Julia Price: Mutual but unequal: Mentoring as a hybrid of familiar relationship roles
• Michael Karcher, Carla Herrera, and Keoki Hansen: "I dunno, what do you wanna do?": Testing a framework to guide mentor training and activity selection
• Michael Nakkula and John Harris: Beyond the dichotomy of work and fun: Measuring the thorough interrelatedness of structure and quality in youth mentoring relationships
• Julia M. Pryce, Naida Silverthorn, Bernadette Sanchez, and David L. DuBois: GirlPOWER! Strengthening mentoring relationships through a structured, gender-specific program
• Timothy Cavell and Joye L. Henrie: Deconstructing serendipity: Focus, purpose, and authorship in lunch buddy mentoring
• Simon Larose, Diane Cyrenne, Odette Garceau, Pascale Brodeur, and George TarabulsyThe structure of effective academic mentoring in late adolescence
• Stephen F. Hamilton and Mary Agnes Hamilton: Building mentoring relationships
• Dave Marshall and Karen Shaver: Culture, context, and innovation: A Kiwi Canuck perspective
• Jean E. Rhodes and Renée Spencer: Structuring mentoring relationships for competence, character, and purpose