Jean E. Rhodes (born c. 1961) is an American psychologist and author. She is the Frank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology at the

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. She is the director of the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Career

Rhodes graduated

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from the

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in 1983. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with distinction from

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and completed her clinical internship in 1988 and a postdoctoral clinical position in 1989 at the

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. Rhodes was hired as an assistant of psychology at the

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in 1989, where she was promoted to associate professor with

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in 1995. Rhodes currently serves as the Frank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology in the clinical psychology division at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Throughout her career, Rhodes has published four books and over 200 chapters and articles."The Rhodes lab" Retrieved August 13, 2019. Rhodes specializes in the study of youth mentoring and is noted for her theories of mentoring relationship process and formal mentoring relationships. Rhodes is co-Founder of MentorPRO, a technology platform for improving the effectiveness of mentoring relationships.

Awards and recognition

Rhodes is the recipient of the 202
Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society
from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association (2024). Her book, Older and wiser: New Ideas for youth mentoring in the 21st Century received th
Eleanor Maccoby Award from Division 7
(2023). Rhodes is also the recipient of the 202
Distinguished Contribution to Research and Theory Award
from the American Psychological Association's Society for Research and Community Action (Division 27). Rhodes is a fellow of the

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and the Society for Research and Community Action. Previously, she was a member of two

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research networks, a Robert Wood Johnson health policy fellow, and both a faculty scholar and a distinguished fellow of the William T. Grant Foundation. At the University of Massachusetts, Rhodes has received the Commonwealth Citation for Outstanding Performance, the Distinguished Academic Leadership and Outstanding Service to the Students Award, and the Chancellor's Distinguished Scholar Award.

Personal

Rhodes grew up in

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, and currently lives in

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. She has been married to MIT Professor K. Dane Wittrup since 1990 and they have three children, Audrey, Ian, and Thomas.

References

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