Mentoring after prison : recognition as a tool for reflection
Hean, Sarah Catherine Patricia Duff; Sæbjørnsen, Siv Elin Nord; Eines, Trude Fløystad; Grønvik, Cecilie Katrine Utheim
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2023Metadata
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Hean, S., Sæbjørnsen, S. E. N., Eines, T. F., & Grønvik, C. K. U. (2023). Mentoring after prison : recognition as a tool for reflection I British Journal of Community Justice. 10.48411/64p1-5802Abstract
Many organisations offer mentoring schemes to support people leaving prison and resettle back into the community. Mentorship relationships are complex but despite this, there remains limited theoretical and/or research informed tools to guide mentorship practices and hereby the success of ex-prisoner mentorship. The aim of the paper is to contribute to this shortfall by presenting a theoretically informed framework to assist reflection on mentorship practices and the mentorship relationship: the Recognition Reflection Framework (RRF). The framework has potential to provide mentors with a tool to reflect on ex-prisoners´ need for recognition of worth if they are to desist from crime. The paper describes the theoretical development and preliminary validation of this reflection framework, underpinned by a strengths-based mentoring approach, and developed through the merger of concepts from recognition theory, person centred care and therapeutic alliances. We present this framework as a means through which mentors can reflect on how they may specifically contribute to secondary and tertiary desistance, as well as reflect on ways they can personally develop a constructive mentor-client relationship. Mentoring after prison : recognition as a tool for reflection