Background

In residential youth care, group care workers and teachers often serve as a mentor for individual adolescents. Although favorable mentoring relationships are associated with positive adolescent outcomes, few studies examined the role of mentoring in residential youth care.

Objective

The present study aims to assess adolescents’, care workers’ and teachers’ mentoring relationship needs in terms of their one-on-one conversations during residential care.

Methods

We conducted structured interviews with eleven adolescents, ten group care workers and two teachers and content analysis to assess the data

Results

All respondents are rather satisfied with their conversations, which are often concerned with how the adolescent is doing. Adolescents mostly consider their family and home-situation as difficult topics, while care workers mostly consider sexuality as a difficult topic to talk about. Although ‘improvement’ with the youth is often the aim, most adolescents report that they do not (know if they) show changes because of these conversations. Moreover, only one of the twelve professionals thinks that it is his core task to achieve behavior change with the adolescents. According to the professionals, conversations often aim at building a good relationship, coaching, determining treatment goals, and gaining insight into the adolescent. Adolescents prefer a mentor who is calm, has respect, listens, and is reluctant in giving advice. Most professionals do not use a specific method and doubt whether they want to have conversations according to a manual or support tool.

Conclusions

Despite being rather satisfied, adolescents and professionals indicate several points for improvement of one-on-one conversations.

中文翻译：

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感觉更好：青少年和专业人士在住院青年护理中的指导关系的经验和需求

背景

在寄宿青年护理中，团体护理人员和教师通常充当个别青少年的导师。尽管有利的指导关系与积极的青少年成果相关，但很少有研究考察指导在青年寄宿护理中的作用。

客观的

本研究旨在评估青少年、护理人员和教师在住宿护理期间的一对一对话方面的指导关系需求。

方法

我们对 11 名青少年、10 名团体护理人员和两名教师进行了结构化访谈，并进行了内容分析以评估数据

结果

所有受访者都对他们的谈话感到相当满意，谈话往往关注青少年的表现。青少年大多认为家庭和家庭状况是难谈的话题，而护理人员则大多认为性是难谈的话题。尽管“改善”青少年通常是目标，但大多数青少年报告说，由于这些对话，他们（不知道是否）表现出改变。而且，十二位专业人士中只有一位认为实现行为改变是他的核心任务。与青少年。根据专业人士的说法，对话通常旨在建立良好的关系、指导、确定治疗目标以及深入了解青少年。青少年更喜欢冷静、尊重、倾听并且不愿提供建议的导师。大多数专业人士不使用特定的方法，并且怀疑他们是否想要根据手册或支持工具进行对话。

结论

尽管相当满意，青少年和专业人士指出改善一对一对话的几点。