Who Uses Youth Mentoring Frameworks and Guidelines?: A Scoping Review

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q2 SOCIAL WORK

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Pub Date : 2026-02-09 DOI:10.1007/s10560-026-01086-6

Ben Arnold Lohmeyer, Joel Robert McGregor, Loryn Anne Sykes

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Abstract

Mentoring is a popular mode for supporting young people through periods of uncertainty. Youth mentoring frameworks have been developed in countries including Australia, the USA and New Zealand to guide the creation and evaluation of mentoring programs. Yet, how frequently and to what degree these frameworks are utilised is unknown. In addition, the research on youth mentoring is international and multi-disciplinary, leading to fragmentation and disorganisation of key ideas and benchmarks. This paper investigates how frequently and to what degree established youth mentoring frameworks are employed in the literature using a scoping review methodology. The searchers returned 318 results. After screening, 37 studies were included in the review. Included literature was organised into three themes: 1) papers that did not report using a mentoring framework or guidelines in the development of the program/intervention under examination; (2) papers that did report a framework, but did not attempt to create new guidelines; (3) and papers that did not report a framework, but did attempt to create new guidelines. We argue that youth mentoring frameworks do not strongly inform research and that there is a clear need for international collaboration to develop and integrate youth mentoring frameworks.

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谁使用青年辅导框架和指南？：范围审查

指导是支持年轻人度过不确定时期的一种流行模式。澳大利亚、美国和新西兰等国已经制定了青年指导框架，以指导指导计划的创建和评估。然而，这些框架被使用的频率和程度是未知的。此外，对青年辅导的研究是国际性和多学科的，导致关键思想和基准的碎片化和混乱。本文调查了使用范围审查方法在文献中采用的建立青年指导框架的频率和程度。搜索者返回318个结果。筛选后，纳入了37项研究。纳入的文献分为三个主题：1)未报告在研究项目/干预措施的开发中使用指导框架或指导方针的论文；(2)报告了一个框架，但没有试图创建新的指导方针的论文；(3)以及没有报告框架，但确实试图创建新指导方针的论文。我们认为，青年指导框架并没有强有力地为研究提供信息，而且显然需要国际合作来发展和整合青年指导框架。

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期刊介绍： The Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (CASW) features original articles that focus on social work practice with children, adolescents, and their families. Topics include issues affecting a variety of specific populations in special settings. CASW welcomes a range of scholarly contributions focused on children and adolescents, including theoretical papers, narrative case studies, historical analyses, traditional reviews of the literature, descriptive studies, single-system research designs, correlational investigations, methodological works, pre-experimental, quasi-experimental and experimental evaluations, meta-analyses and systematic reviews. Manuscripts involving qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are welcome to be submitted, as are papers grounded in one or more theoretical orientations, or those that are not based on any formal theory. CASW values different disciplines and interdisciplinary work that informs social work practice and policy. Authors from public health, nursing, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines are encouraged to submit manuscripts. All manuscripts should include specific implications for social work policy and practice with children and adolescents. Appropriate fields of practice include interpersonal practice, small groups, families, organizations, communities, policy practice, nationally-oriented work, and international studies. Authors considering publication in CASW should review the following editorial: Schelbe, L., & Thyer, B. A. (2019). Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Editorial Policy: Guidelines for Authors. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 36, 75-80.