Study: Mentoring in school settings can help children control emotions and behavior

Just came across a new piece of research on a school-based mentoring program aimed at imparting behavioral traits like discipline, anger control, social skills:

"The study conducted by the Researchers at University of Rochester Medical Center has revealed that the children enrolled in a school-run mentoring program were more capable of handling anger and other emotions than others, thereby facing fewer disciplinary referrals."

It's worth noting that this was not a typical school-based mentoring model: the matches were only for three months and they were very focused on these behavioral skills. It could be viewed as being more of a skill development class than a mentoring program. But, this is still more evidence that mentoring has an impact, and that highly focused mentoring efforts can produce the specific impacts they are looking for.

Additional information here:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=2777