Mentoring programs show promise for preventing emotional and behavioral problems among at‐risk youth, but little is known about processes that may be most critical to achieving this end.
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Mentoring programs show promise for preventing emotional and behavioral problems among at‐risk youth, but little is known about processes that may be most critical to achieving this end.
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- Relational Well-Being and Adolescent Depression: Evidence from Secondary Schools in Dodoma and Pwani, Tanzania (2026) · doi
linked Based on these findings, several considerations for policy and practice emerge. Initiatives that promote family cohesion and adaptability, such as parenting education programmes, counselling services, and school-parent engagement activities, may help strengthen to relational environments adolescent well-being. Within schools, mentoring programmes, peer-support initiatives, and anti- bullying strategies may help cultivate relational climates characterised by safety and inclusion.
Keywords: initiatives programmes help relational linked based several considerations policy practice emerge promote family cohesion adaptability - Promoting or suppressing resilience to mental health outcomes in at risk young people: The role of parental and peer attachment and school connectedness (2018) · doi
School connectedness may provide a role in promoting resilience for mental health for adolescents living in risk, whereas the potential negative influence that secure attachments to peers exerts, in context of poor parental attachment, needs to be explored further.
Keywords: school connectedness provide role promoting resilience mental health adolescents living risk potential negative influence secure - MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS, POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT, YOUTH EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS: INVESTIGATION OF A MEDIATIONAL MODEL (2016) · doi
Mentoring programs show promise for preventing emotional and behavioral problems among at‐risk youth, but little is known about processes that may be most critical to achieving this end.
Keywords: mentoring programs show promise preventing emotional behavioral problems among risk youth little known processes critical
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