TY - JOUR AU - Renée Spencer PY - 2012/05/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Working Model of Mentors’ Contributions to Youth Mentoring Relationship Quality: Insights From Research on Psychotherapy JF - LEARNing Landscapes JA - LL VL - 5 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.36510/learnland.v5i2.567 UR - https://learninglandscapes.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/A-Working-Model-of-Mentors%E2%80%99-Contributions-to-Youth-Mentoring-Relationship-Quality-Insights-From-Research-on-Psychotherapy AB - Mentoring is a flexible approach to youth development that can promote positive outcomes through informal learning. Not all mentoring relationships are beneficial, however, as lower quality mentoring relationships tend to have little effect. A mentor’s overall approach to the relationship has been found to influence relationship quality. But what does it take to engage a young person in such a relationship and sustain it over time? In this paper, I draw from the research on psychotherapy and other related literatures to briefly sketch out a working model for the determinants of mentoring relationship quality and then focus in detail on one of these—the contributions of the mentor. ER -