Therapeutic Mentoring Interventions for Youth : Best Practices, Policy Implications, and Next Steps (Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice)

Hagler, Matthew (EDT)/ Werntz, Alexandra (EDT)/ Greenawalt, Jessica (EDT)

Springer, Berlin; Springer（2027/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 商品コード 9783032464170

Full Description

This book examines empirical evidence and detailed reviews of feasibility, efficacy, and implementation of therapeutic mentoring as a strategy to address the youth mental health crisis. It integrates public health principles of task-shifting and stepped care, providing a theoretical rationale and empirical evidence for paraprofessional mentors' ability to deliver therapeutic interventions for youth. The book describes ways to scale up therapeutic mentoring to maximize its impact and reach more youth and families (e.g., school-based and technology-supported interventions). It addresses key ethical and legal issues of implementing therapeutic mentoring on a larger scale (e.g., credentialing, training, and supervision of therapeutic mentors). The book offers case studies of exemplary youth mentoring programs and details a synthesized agenda for research, practice, and policy to enhance the scale, efficacy, and safety of evidence-based therapeutic mentoring interventions.

Key areas of coverage include:

Providing therapeutic mentoring to minoritized youth.
Best practices for training and supervising therapeutic mentors.
Current laws and regulations on therapeutic mentoring.
Integrating technology-delivered interventions into therapy.

Therapeutic Mentoring Interventions for Youth is an essential resource for clinicians, administrators, policymakers, and other professionals as well as professors, researchers, and graduate students  in developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, social work, family studies, public health, sociology, demography, prevention science, political science, family law, and economics.