Relationships are the heart of the work: mentoring relationships within gender-responsive programs for black girls
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Research suggests that the well-being of black girls is often neglected in schools and juvenile justice systems. Gender-responsive programs designed to serve black girls can be beneficial if they focus on developing strong relationships between girls and adults. Researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 10 black girls and 10 adults at a gender-responsive agency. Staff members and girls discussed the ways mentoring relationships developed at the agency. Themes emerged related to positive relationships (the development of positive relationships, integrity and trustworthiness, perceived support, and role modeling) as well as potential challenges/barriers (challenges to trust, perceived judgment, advice giving, and confidentiality).
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The promoting-catalyzing component encourages self-esteem, autonomy and self-direction, role modeling, guidance, advocacy, empowerment and challenge, future planning, and promoting motivation, and includes skill-based career and academic support.
“The third component of promoting-catalyzing encourages self-esteem, autonomy and self-direction, role modeling, guidance, advocacy, empowerment and challenge, future planning, and promoting motivation. Other elements of this component include skill-based career and academic support [80,82,83,85,86,88,92,93,98,108].”
From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [85]
The emotional component is the most frequently engaged and includes aspects of trust, reliability, consistency, support, and authenticity in mentoring programs in all formats operating with American, European, Israeli, and Australian youth.
“The emotional component, which is the most frequently engaged, includes aspects of trust, reliability, consistency, support, and authenticity in mentoring programs in all formats operating with American, European, Israeli, and Australian youth [78,80,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96].”
From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [85]
These positive outcomes are particularly manifest when non-judgment, advice-giving, and confidentiality are preserved and when shared experiences of discrimination and shared socioeconomic status are integrated into the relationship.
“These positive outcomes are particularly manifest when non-judgment, advice-giving, and confidentiality are preserved [85] and when shared experiences of discrimination and shared socioeconomic status are integrated into the relationship [107].”
From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [85]
Theoretical writings and qualitative studies have suggested that race and ethnic similarity may comprise key facets of attraction and closeness, as shared culture is more likely to improve the strength and length of the relationship by facilitating processes of idealization, role modeling, and identification.
“Theoretical writings [164] and qualitative studies [85,107,170] have suggested that race and ethnic similarity may comprise key facets of attraction and closeness, as shared culture is more likely to improve the strength and the length of the relationship by facilitating processes of idealization, role modeling, and identification.”
From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [85]
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- Authors
- Brinkman, B. G., Marino, S., & Manning, L.
- Affiliations
- Chatham University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Brinkman, Britney G
- Venue
- Journal of Feminist Family Therapy
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-07-11
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 191-213
- ISSN
- 0895-2833 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-4099
- OpenAlex
- W2835753783
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3
- FWCI
- 1.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Feminist Family Therapy (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mentoring and Academic Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Keywords
- mentoring relationships, Black girls, adult-youth relationships, trustworthiness, perceived support, role modeling, confidentiality, juvenile justice
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