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Article: Cross-gender mentoring relationships critical issues.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
- Author:
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Mentoring is an appropriate vehicle for promoting professional development of rehabilitation counseling students and novice professionals. Viranyi, Crimando, Riggar and Schmidt (1992) maintained that mentoring can be a beneficial way for rehabilitation agencies to provide needed information to new graduate degree holders who landed supervisory positions, yet have limited management and/or supervisory skills. Blackwell (1989) defined mentoring as "a process by which persons of special rank, special achievements, and prestige instruct, counsel, guide and facilitate the intellectual and/or career development of persons identified as proteges". The mentor-protege relationship ...