Mentoring Benefits

Mentoring is beneficial to most students in a mentoring relationship of some type. Gail Manza states that over 17.6 million young students benefit from mentoring (Manza). These benefits deal with the students learning the outcomes of right and wrong decisions that can deal with drugs and alcohol, and academic choices. The problem with mentoring that gets looked over in studies is that mentoring, if the relationship starts to decline, can create long lasting damage to the mentee. To start with, mentors can have a tendency to damage the relationship by focusing more on themselves than the mentee. Glenn Llopis uses his own experiences on how his mentor brought a negative connotation upon himself. By the mentor not being invested in the student …show more content…
In the case of the mentor they can be using the mentee as a way to gain personal success instead of helping the mentee gain their own success (Llopis). Having a self esteem that leaves a negative impact on students is critical to the benefits of mentoring they will …show more content…
Sarah Schwartz et al. explains these outcomes of low self-esteem. Schwartz et al. states with a low self-esteem, the mentee can have increasingly high levels of criminal behavior, their physical and mental health can deteriorate. This comes from a lack of emotional support and social approval, which was not present through a mentoring program (Schwartz et al.). Some one-on-one mentoring relationships are proven to provide positive benefits, but some studies show otherwise. Those studies that were explained by Schwartz et al. in their article, state that self-esteem comes from a close attachment in the relationship. If the mentor is not fully committed to helping the student find their potential and be there as a support, then the mentee will not grow in self-esteem like other students with positive role models (Schwartz et al.). Students who have a negative experience can be deeply affected and become less confident with