Mentoring from a Positive Psychology Perspective

Professor Ann Brewer PhD (Organisational Behaviour), Master of Commerce (Honours), Bachelor of Arts (Behavioural Sciences), FAICD, Australian Institute of Company Directors is the Dean of the Sydney Campus, the University of Newcastle and an Emeritus Professor, the University of Sydney. She has held several senior posts in universities, as well as being an experienced board member, an organisational consultant, an accredited executive coach and a professional mentor. She has published in leading international journals in her field and authored seven books including Leadership, Coaching and Followership (Springer 2014) as well as organisational change, employee commitment and management.

• Chapter 1. Mentoring Mindedness.- Chapter 2. Positive Mentoring: Learning to Shape and Nurture Talent and Confidence.- Chapter 3. The Mentoring Conversation.- Chapter 4. The Burden of Unburdening in Mentoring Relationship.- Chapter 5. Blame.- Chapter 6. Guilt.- Chapter 7. Silence and Giving voices to the Mentee.- Chapter 8. Attachment and Loyalty.- Chapter 9. Mentoring for All Seasons.- Chapter 10. Mentoring for Resilience and Sustainability.

“Readers from multiple disciplines will benefit from reading the present book … . This is a great book to stimulate thinking and spur novel research ideas for empirical testing and evaluation. … book is one that seasoned dissertation mentors will relish for new ideas and one that department chairs may wish to gently nudge novice or ineffective thesis advisors to read. … Brewer has much to offer researchers and practitioners, mentors and mentees, and all those involved in mentoring relationships.” (Grant J. Rich, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (2), January, 2017)