Youth Mentoring: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-47

  Keller, Thomas E ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural communities; Immigration; Juvenile court; Urbanization; Youth mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889468328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470691960.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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