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Online Cross-Cultural Mentorship In A Health Career Pipeline Program, Nicole Lapointe
Online Cross-Cultural Mentorship In A Health Career Pipeline Program, Nicole Lapointe
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
This phenomenological study of cross-cultural mentoring is set in an online health workforce development program for youth from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine (URIM). The purpose of this study is to understand how personal and contextual factors influence the experiences of medical student mentors. This study provides insights into how mentoring programs can support the development of positive cross-cultural relationships in online environments. A literature review identified individual and contextual influences that contribute to mentoring relationship quality. How these factors translate through online modalities is underexplored in the literature on youth mentoring. This research used mixed methods in a case-selection variation …
Family Process Influences On The Resilient Responses Of Youth, Monika Ingeborg Baege
Family Process Influences On The Resilient Responses Of Youth, Monika Ingeborg Baege
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The concept of resiliency, or how young people thrive in the face of adversity, brings a positive focus to youth development research and has emerged as an important topic in the youth development field. Adversity, or risk factors, may be internally or externally generated, and may acute or chronic. Researchers often point to the balance of between risk factors and protective factors as the determining influences on a child's resiliency. If protective factors in the layers of a child's world (such as self, family, school, and community) outweigh the risk factors, then a child will be resilient. However, questions remain …