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An invited commentary on mentoring in infant mental health: A symposium commemorating Robert N. Emde
David Oppenheim1, Kristin Bernard2, Mary Dozier3
1School of Psychological Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Abstract:
This paper is based on a symposium on mentoring in infant mental health that took place at the 18th World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) conference. The symposium commemorated Robert N. Emde who was one of the founders of the field of Infant Mental Health, and devoted much of his career to mentorship. From an IMH perspective, mentoring experiences are best thought of as relationships, significant for both mentor and mentee, with positive mentoring experiences crucial for the development of IMH clinicians and researchers. The symposium participants, two pairs of mentor-mentee dyads, first gave an opening statement about what mentoring meant for them generally and personally, and then addressed three issues: the goodness of fit between mentor and mentee, "light and shadow" in mentoring relationships, and balancing old wisdom with new trends in mentoring. The paper brings the participants' views and personal experiences regarding these issues in their own words, highlighting key personal and professional issues related to mentorship from the perspectives of both mentor and mentee.
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