Virtual Community Mentoring Models for Middle School Underachievers Psychosocial Development and Well-Being During COVID-19
- Title
- Virtual Community Mentoring Models for Middle School Underachievers Psychosocial Development and Well-Being During COVID-19
- Creator
- Gomes R.F.; Thomas L.
- Description
- Recent studies highlight the outcomes of COVID-19 on the psychosocial skills of early adolescents. It shows the unavailability of virtual community mentoring models for teenagers' individual and interpersonal growth in the virtual scenario. Hence, there emerges a need to explore and apply the available virtual communication resources by facilitators, families, and other community professionals for teenagers self-development. This article reports the application of virtual resources like WhatsApp, graphic design platforms (CANVA and Adobe), graphic interchange formats (GIPHY App), all-in-one visual content editing forums (InShot App), and memes (Meme Generator App) in engaging and supporting community mentoring capacities leading to psychosocial development and well-being for teenagers during COVID-19. Through this article, contemporary virtual models are explored and executed with community guidance to integrate the personal developmental skills of middle school underachievers. There is also a need to work with community interventions by using virtual mentoring skillsets for positive youth development. 2022, Commonwealth of Learning. All rights reserved.
- Source
- Journal of Learning for Development, Vol-9, No. 1, pp. 137-144.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Learning
- Subject
- COVID-19; psychosocial development; virtual community models
- Coverage
- Gomes R.F., Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India; Thomas L., Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India
- Rights
- All Open Access; Gold Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 23111550
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Gomes R.F.; Thomas L., “Virtual Community Mentoring Models for Middle School Underachievers Psychosocial Development and Well-Being During COVID-19,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/15419.