What is it about?
Graduate students in speech-language pathology have high levels of stress that can have negative consequences for the students and the program. A pilot program in peer mentoring showed little impact on overall stress levels but student mentees reported benefits to participation.
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Why is it important?
These findings demonstrate that peer mentoring has the potential to benefit students.
Perspectives
This project sought to help new speech-language pathology students deal with the stresses of grad school. Although the impact of the program wasn't what I was hoping for, it's a good jumping off point for using peer mentoring to benefit students.
Stacie Hatfield
Augustana College
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This page is a summary of: Effects of a Peer-Mentoring Program on Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Student Stress, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, August 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2021_persp-20-00269.
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