Mentoring: A Guide for Drug Abuse Researchers

Quality mentoring, good planning, and hard work, along with a favourable environment, are some of the elements that combine to create a successful career.

This guide focuses on the importance of quality mentorship and offers suggestions for creating a successful mentor-mentee relationship. The chapters that follow include information that places mentoring in the broader context of research training, data from surveys with mentees, guidance on good mentoring practices, discussion of some challenges to mentoring, and a listing of mentoring resources that can be accessed via the Internet. “How To” boxes can be found throughout the guide, which provides quick access to ideas and checklists for mentors and mentees.