Sometimes, despite your best intentions, your mentee may seem angry or withdrawn. This may be because the mentee is redirecting feelings they may have about someone else toward the mentor. Indeed, it’s easy to see how a mentee might redirect his or her feelings such as anger/disappointment with a parent, frustration with a teacher, ambivalence toward an older sibling, etc. onto a mentor. How should a mentor handle this?

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