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Quality In Action webinar, May 5, 2010, featuring panelists Renee Spencer and Belle Liang. Presented by the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota.
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Mentoring Partnership of Mentoring Partnership of MinnesotaMinnesota
Quality in ActionQuality in ActionFirst Do No Harm: Ethical Principles First Do No Harm: Ethical Principles for Youth Mentoring Relationshipsfor Youth Mentoring Relationships
May 5, 2010May 5, 2010
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Ethical Principles for Youth Ethical Principles for Youth Mentoring RelationshipsMentoring Relationships
Belle Liang, Ph.D, an associate professor of counseling psychology in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College
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Renée Spencer, Ed.D., LICSW, an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Boston University
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OverviewOverview
IntroductionIntroduction Ethical Principles for Youth Mentoring Ethical Principles for Youth Mentoring
RelationshipsRelationships BackgroundBackground The 5 Ethical PrinciplesThe 5 Ethical Principles
ConclusionConclusion
First Do No Harm: Ethical Principles of Youth Mentoring Relationships. First Do No Harm: Ethical Principles of Youth Mentoring Relationships.
Authors: Jean Rhodes, Belle Liang and Authors: Jean Rhodes, Belle Liang and Renèe Spencer in in Professional Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Psychology: Research and Practice of 2009, vol. 40, issue 5, pp. 452-458of 2009, vol. 40, issue 5, pp. 452-458..
Good intentions alone are not enough
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IntroductionIntroduction
Ethical challenges within mentoring relationships Ethical challenges within mentoring relationships have been given little attention by the mentoring have been given little attention by the mentoring field.field.
Nearly ½ of relationships terminate prematurely (Rhodes, 2002).
Volunteer training can affect match effectiveness, retention, relationship quality and youth outcomes (DuBois, Holloway, Valentine, & Cooper, 2002; DuBois & Neville, 1997; Karcher, Nakkula, & Harris, 2005).
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Five Guiding PrinciplesFive Guiding Principles
Promote Welfare and Safety of Young Person
Be Trustworthy and Responsible Act with Integrity
Promote Justice for Young People
Respect the Young Person’s Rights and Dignity
**APA’s Code of Ethics (2002). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct. Washington, DC: Author.
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Promote the Welfare and Safety of the Young Person First Do No HarmFirst Do No Harm
BeneficenceBeneficence - Behavior that benefits the good of another and that helps them to avoid harm.
If volunteers lack skills, knowledge or sound judgment, complications can and do arise.
Harm can arise from either: a) Misuse of power b) Inappropriate boundaries
Grossman & Rhodes, 2002; Kalbfleisch, 1997
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
--Ernest Hemingway 1932
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Be Trustworthy and Responsible
Fidelity - Keeping promises and
behaving in a trustworthy manner (Strom-Gottfried, 2008, p. 21)
Meeting frequency and match duration
Trust is a keystone of effective mentoring relationships (Sipe, 1996)
Premature endings can lead to decrements in youth functioning (Grossman & Rhodes, 2002; Herrera et al., 2007; Karcher, 2005; Slicker & Palmer, 1993)
Mentors enter with unrealistic expectations
Mentors feel shame at failure to connect
Be Trustworthy and Responsible
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Mentors are expected to be intentional and candid about commitments to the relationship and avoid setting up false expectations.
Mentors should be expected to bear the greater responsibility for: maintaining consistency, honoring commitments, and seek program staff support
Act with Integrity
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Promote Justice for Young People
Avoid prejudicial treatment Differences in cultural backgrounds and values may lead volunteers to hold or unwittingly act on cultural biasesPrematch training and ongoing supervision are vital Mentoring has potential to promote social change
Largest proportion of volunteer mentors are white, middle-class students and professionals (MENTOR, 2006)
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Respect the Young Person’s Rights and Dignity
Beauchamp & Childress, 2008
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ConfidentialityConfidentiality Training should be provided on issues surrounding confidentiality.
Mentors should inform their protégés of their obligation to breach confidentiality should the protégé disclose that s/he intends to harm his or herself or others. Decisions should be made in consultation with mentoring program staff that involve such disclosure.
Respect the Young Person’s Rights and Dignity
Connections to Quality
How are these ethical principles tied to the movement towards best practices and standards for youth mentoring?
Who is responsible?
What is the role of program staff in promoting ethical principles?
Parents? Funders?
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Conclusions
Programs have an obligation to sensitize volunteer mentors to ethical issues.
Comprehensive prematch and ongoing training can promote more effective relationship development, helping mentors to: better understand and relate to protégés of diverse
backgrounds avoid ethical violations create more positive outcomes
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Resources
First Do No Harm: Ethical Principles of Youth
Mentoring Relationships. Authors: Jean Authors: Jean Rhodes, Belle Liang and Renée Rhodes, Belle Liang and Renée Spencer. Professional Psychology: Research and Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Practice of 2009, of 2009, vol. 40vol. 40, issue 5, pp. 452-, issue 5, pp. 452-458.458.
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Resources
MPM Training www.mpmn.org/traininginstitute
Web sites & PDFs www.delicious.com/traininginstitute
This presentation & others www.slideshare.net/traininginstitute
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Thank You!
Next Quality in Action webinar is June 2, 2010; 12:00 – 1:00 pm CDT Features MPM's K-12 Journey Map and a
discussion of mentoring's impact on youth academic outcomes.