Call for Narratives: Special Issue of Reflections
“Mentoring in the Helping Professions"
Mentoring is a keystone of social work education, professional development, and training. However, there are few forums whereby social workers can seek out reflection and guidance on seeking out, developing, and managing productive mentoring relationships. In this special issue, we seek to begin to fill this gap in literature by placing a call for narratives that explore the diversity of formal and informal mentoring relationships in the social work profession. We encourage submissions from social workers and other helping professionals in a broad array of practice and research settings and across various stages of professional development.
Topics may address, but are not limited to:
- What does mentoring look like in social work education? In social work practice? In social work research?
- How have you identified, initiated, and nurtured mentoring relationships across the lifespan of your social work career?
- Why did you select the mentors or mentees in your career? What set them apart from all the others?
- What are the challenges that you have experienced as a mentor or a mentee? What are some successful strategies that you have employed to address challenges in mentoring relationships?
- How have your mentoring relationships impacted your development as a social work researcher? As a social work practitioner?
- How do you understand your role as a mentor? What has motivated and shaped your understanding of how to engage in mentorship?
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2012
WRITING INSTRUCTIONS AND SUBMISSION PROCESS:
- Provide a cover or title page with the following information for each author: name, highest degree, title, affiliation, mail and email addresses, phone number;
- Write an abstract of no more than 150 words and put this on a separate page without identifying information;
- Use APA 6th edition publications style for references;
- Use Times New Roman style and 12 point font and Microsoft Word;
- Do not exceed 30 double-spaced pages in length, exclusive of the abstract and references; no tables or figures accepted.
Send an electronic copy in .doc or .docx format to both guest editors, as listed below. We look forward to the receiving your manuscripts. Thank you!
Mark J. Hager, Ph.D Jennifer Bellamy, Ph.D
Professor of Psychology Assistant Professor
Menlo College The School of Social Service
Menlo Park, CA Administration
Mhager@menlo.edu University of Chicago
jbellamy@uchicago.edu
