03/18/2021
Why your teen would benefit from having a mentor with MEND: according to Psychology Today, mentorship for young people has numerous benefits.
*Models positive social skills and facilitates interpersonal connections beyond family. *Helps young people interpret and manage life challenges, including relationships with peers and parents.*Facilitates meaningful conversations that boost cognitive skills and provides perspective. *Strengthens self-regulation, one’s ability to manage emotions and impulses—to think before acting. *Promotes identity development, a key task of adolescence, through modeling core qualities that contribute to human thriving, like empathy, curiosity, resourcefulness, and resilience.*Opens doors to new ways of thinking, resources, and opportunities.*Fosters self-efficacy—a belief in oneself.
