Mentoring for mental health professionals

(Therapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, coaches and others)

Professional mentoring focuses mainly on the development of life skills, such as attitudes (relational and emotional skills) and behaviors and mainly on your professional activity and personal life.

  From a personal and professional development point of view, the mentor can then serve as a role model for the mentee.

Mentoring also allows 

the development of knowledge and know-how.

Furthermore, from a knowledge transfer perspective, tacit knowledge, that is, knowledge that is not formalized but that some mentees have, is often mentored. 

  Tacit knowledge is what has not yet been explained, but it can become that way through an adequate explicitation activity. 

Examples include tacit knowledge, including procedural and strategic knowledge, related to organizational culture.

Mentoring is intended to be a strategy well adapted to this knowledge, as it allows for discussion in the mentoring relationship. 

This makes it much easier to exchange knowledge through, among other things, questions and answers, explanations about life, career or sharing experience or opinions.

  Mentoring is a popular strategy of succession development in our activity with the objective of allowing our development and consequently that of our clients or patients.