Author : Dr. Sumathi Chandrasekaran 1
Date of Publication :14th February 2018
Abstract: Mentoring the parent not only enhances their knowledge and skills but also provides personal and professional support to facilitate the bonding with their adolescent children. This study evaluates the impact of two month mentoring of the mothers who have adolescent children with low resilience. The aim of the study was to i) find out whether mentoring has an impact on the perceived stress level of the mother’s, ii.) To find out whether mentoring the mothers increased the level of resilience among their adolescent children thus creating healthy relationship with them. A half day bonding session was given between the mother, mentor and the child as a prelude before starting mentorship of mothers over the phone for a period of two months. The sample size consists of 10 mothers and 7 trained mentors who were post graduate students. A pre-assessment was carried on the parent perceived stress and resilience of their children before the mentoring process. The tools used were Perceived Stress Scale and Connor Davidson Resilience scale. Post assessment was done two months after the intervention. The results indicated that social mentoring was effective in decreasing the perceived stress level of the mothers whereas no significant difference was found in the resilience of the adolescents
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