Full Description
Mentoring for Wellbeing Across the Professions and Disciplines offers invaluable insights into how mentorship can enhance wellbeing across various fields and professional settings. By focusing on the dual aims of personal support and professional learning, this book highlights the often-overlooked positive impact of mentoring on both mentors and mentees. The authors provide practical advice and theoretical perspectives on how developmental relationships foster mutual trust and benefit all parties involved, ultimately helping mentees flourish in their roles and develop essential skills.
The book delves into the connection between mentorship and wellbeing and explores how mentoring can promote mental health, build resilience, and sustain emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing in different organizational settings. Through the collection of chapters from international authors, the book examines the theory and practice of mentorship, offering a comprehensive understanding of how mentoring can enhance wellbeing in K-12 schools, higher education, business, healthcare, pastoral care, and even aviation. The chapter authors present stories and perspectives that deepen our understanding of the multifaceted benefits of mentoring.
By addressing various dimensions of wellbeing—physical, social, emotional, financial, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, cultural, and occupational—this volume provides a holistic view of the positive impact of mentoring. It discusses developmental relationships, program initiatives, and strategies that foster positive organizational cultures and personal growth. Mentoring for Wellbeing Across the Professions and Disciplines is a must-read for anyone interested in the transformative power of mentoring, offering practical applications and new avenues for future research and study.
Contents
Foreword; Lisa Z. Fain
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Need for Mentoring for Wellbeing in Professional Settings; Benjamin Kutsyuruba and Keith D. Walker
Chapter 2. Mentoring for Wellbeing through Inquiry; Keith D. Walker and Kabini Sanga
Chapter 3. Mentors' Use of Interventions to Promote Wellbeing; Mary Barbara Trube
Chapter 4. Mentoring Person-Centered Psychospiritual Maturation: Foundation for Individual and Social Wellbeing; Jared D. Kass
Chapter 5. The Hidden Party in Mentorship Dyads: Trauma's Influence on Wellbeing; Stephanie Guastella Lindsay and Danielle Kubasko Sullivan
Chapter 6. Work-Related, Spiritual Mentoring in Support of Stakeholder Wellbeing; Sheldene Simola
Chapter 7. The Laying on of Hands: Mentoring for Wellbeing in the Pastoral Relationship; Mark Buchanan, Ric Strangway, and Arch Chee Keen Wong
Chapter 8. A More Engaged Workforce: Connecting Corporate Mentoring and Wellbeing; Julie Silard Kantor
Chapter 9. Positive Leadership Development Through Informal Mentoring; Christopher M. Parfitt and Dianelys Navarro
Chapter 10. Educational Leadership and Wellbeing: A Virtuous Journey through Servant Leader Mentoring; Fatima Salas-Rodriguez, Melinda C. Bier, and Deborah S. O'Reilly
Chapter 11. Positive School Leadership in Teacher Induction Programs: Promoting Early Career Teachers' Wellbeing through Mentoring in Malta; Christopher Bezzina and Benjamin Kutsyuruba
Chapter 12. Induction through Near Peer Learning Communities: The Impact on New Teacher Retention, Self-Efficacy, and Wellbeing; Amanda L. Mazin and Jessica F. Riccio
Chapter 13. Nurturing Well-being in Teacher Education: A Focus on Needs-oriented Mentoring; Benjamin Dreer-Göthe
Chapter 14. The Power of Feedback to Foster Wellbeing, Relatedness, and Goal Achievement in Mentoring Relationships; Rebecca Stroud and Trista Hollweck
Chapter 15. A LatCircle: Supporting Academic and Social Wellbeing Through Effective Virtual Mentoring of Latinx Scholars; James Martínez, Regina L. Suriel, María L. Gabriel, Juan A. Ríos Vega, Neritza Díaz-Cruz, and Javier Gonzalez Gonzales
Chapter 16. Mentoring in a Professional Learning Community of Researchers: Perspectives on Wellbeing; Luciana C. de Oliveira, Karen L. Terrell, Jia Gui, Tara M. Willging, Jefferson do Carmo Andrade Santos, and Allessandra Elisabeth dos Santos
Chapter 17. Women Supporting Women: A Collaborative Autoethnography Exploring Mutual Mentoring for Wellbeing at Work; Ann M. Morgan and Laura Knight Lynn
Chapter 18. Reciprocal Mentoring: Shared Funds of Knowledge and Faculty Wellbeing; Dionne Clabaugh, Christine Carducci, Suji Venkataraman and Sandy Baba
Chapter 19. Building Resilience Through a Structured Mentoring Program in an Interprofessional Health Practice; Summer V. McMurry and Catherine L. Funk
Chapter 20. Mentorship for Wellbeing in Postgraduate Medical Education; Anurag Saxena, Gayathri Manoharan, Loni Desanghere, Tanya Robertson-Frey, and Jennifer Uhryn
Chapter 21. Mentoring for Wellbeing in Nursing Practice; Debra Leners and Karin Polifko
Chapter 22. Empowering Connections: The Impacts of Mentoring on Employee Wellbeing; Rebecca Rogers
Chapter 23. Mentoring for the Wellbeing of Pilots: Innovative Mentoring in the Field of Aviation; Catherine G. Cordova, Barron Parsons-Daisley, and Emma Fox
Chapter 24. Concluding Thoughts: Mediating Wellbeing and Garnering Momentum Through Mentorship; Keith D. Walker and Benjamin Kutsyuruba
