Bernadine Brady, Pat Dolan, Caroline McGregor

Mentoring for Young People in Care and Leaving Care

Theory, Policy and Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

Mentoring for Young People in Care and Leaving Care offers a rich exploration of the theory, research and practice relating to youth mentoring as a means of essential social support.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138551411
• ISBN-10: 1138551414
• Artikelnr.: 57814781

Autorenporträt

Dr Bernadine Brady is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, NUI, Galway. Professor Pat Dolan is Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at NUI, Galway and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement. Professor Caroline McGregor is Professor at the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway with lead responsibility for the discipline of social work. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Children in Care and Leaving Care: Issues and challenges
Chapter 3: Natural and youth-initiated mentoring
Chapter 4: Formal Youth Mentoring for Children in Care and Leaving Care
Chapter 5: Introducing the Current Study
Chapter 6: Young people's Perspectives on the Benefits of Mentoring
Chapter 7: Youth perspectives on relational dynamics and quality in
mentoring relationships
Chapter 8: Mentoring for Young People in Care: Mess ages for policy and
practice