Mentoring: Program Development, Relationships and Outcomes -- Contents -- Preface -- Analysis of Mentee Factors in Learning Minimal Access Surgery in Relation to Retroperitoneal Renal Surgery in Children -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Part 1 - Trainer's Perspective -- Acquisition of Surgical Skills -- Part 2 - Trainee's Perspective -- References -- Mentoring in Context: A Sociological Approach to the Study of Mentoring Relationships -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Life Course Perspective -- Formal Versus Informal Mentoring -- Selection Versus Causation -- Inequality -- Sociological Concepts -- Multiple Sources of Mentoring -- Social Network Analysis -- Mentoring in Comparative and Historical Perspective -- Conclusion -- References -- Developing the Spectrum of Supportive Relationships Including Mentoring -- Introduction -- Background -- When is Mentoring Really Mentoring? -- The Spectrum of Supportive Relationships -- Conclusion -- References -- Mid-career: The Proper Period for the Mentoring of Newly Appointed Principals -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Career-Stage Approach -- Mid-career: The Most Suitable Stage for Taking on Mentorial Tasks -- Implications for Further Research on Mentoring -- References -- Effective Mentoring of Student Teachers: Attitudes, Characteristics and Practices of Successful Associate Teachers within a New Zealand Context -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Findings -- Conclusion -- References -- Author Note -- Faculty Mentoring at a Distance: Coming Together in the Virtual Community -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Mentoring in the Virtual Institution of Higher Education -- A Study of Virtual Mentoring -- Mentoring Practices -- References -- Supporting Future Teachers Learning to Teach Through an Integrated Model of Mentoring -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Teacher Education Reform of Taiwan.

Mushrooming of Integrated Research Projects on Mentoring -- An Integrated Model of Mentoring Program for Improving Quality of Internship -- The Process of Helping in Improving Mentors' Professional Teaching and Mentoring -- Mentors' and FTS' Views of the Integrated Model -- The Effect of the Integrated Model of Mentoring on FTS Performing on Teaching -- Discussion -- References -- The Interface of Mentoring with Management and Human Resource Development in Today's Organisations -- Introduction -- The Nature and Process of Mentoring -- Positioning the Mentoring Program as a Facilitative Component to the Training and Development Function -- Building Goodness of Fit Between Mentoring Programs and Management Style -- Aligning the Mentoring Process with the Bottom Line -- Mentoring in Tomorrow's Organisations -- References -- Peer-Mentoring and Disability: Current Applications and Future Directions -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theoretical Perspective: The Ecological Analogy of Community Psychology and the Social-Ecological Model of Disability Studies -- Empirical Research: Peer-Mentoring and Disability -- Intervention Research: Applying Peer-Mentoring to Disability -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- When "You're Not the Boss of Me" Mentoring Across Generational Differences -- Introduction -- Generational Differences -- Implications for Mentoring -- Updating Approaches to Mentoring -- Conclusion -- References -- Mentoring in Medicine -- Potential Benefits Regardless of Career Stage -- References -- Mentoring Relationships in the Counseling Field: A Multicultural Perspective -- Abstract -- Mentoring Relationships in the Counseling Field: A Multicultural Perspective -- The Importance of Multicultural Perspectives in Mentoring -- Multicultural Mentoring in the Counseling Field -- Key Multicultural Elements.

Recommendations for Effective Multicultural Mentoring -- Future Directions in Research and Training -- References -- Index.