Handbook of Youth Mentoring

This handbook provides scholarly and comprehensive synthesis of current theory, research, and practice in the field of youth mentoring. It 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. (publisher)