In Beyond the Crisis of Masculinity, Gary Brooks explores the psychopathology of mens everyday livesthe maladaptive strategies that men use to maintain a traditional male role that has increasingly come under assault. He then delves into the related question of why men overwhelmingly reject psychotherapy at a time when they need it the most. The key to engaging men in therapy, Brooks argues, is devising a male-friendly therapy, involving flexibility, consciousness-raising in mens groups and other out-of-office settings, and ...
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In Beyond the Crisis of Masculinity, Gary Brooks explores the psychopathology of mens everyday livesthe maladaptive strategies that men use to maintain a traditional male role that has increasingly come under assault. He then delves into the related question of why men overwhelmingly reject psychotherapy at a time when they need it the most. The key to engaging men in therapy, Brooks argues, is devising a male-friendly therapy, involving flexibility, consciousness-raising in mens groups and other out-of-office settings, and the therapists emphasis on an authentic empathetic bond with the troubled male client to discover meaning in the clients relational pressures and problems at work, with loved ones, and, most of all, with himself. Standard therapeutic models dont work for men, Brooks argues, so therapists must be eclectictranstheoreticalin negotiating therapeutic goals and tasks with their troubled male clients. The central tenets of multicultural counseling and therapy figure prominently in the transtheoretical model, as they allow the therapist to separate out and tackle peculiarly male problems that span different cultural and socioeconomic contexts. Inclusive cultural empathy and the transtheoretical models stages-of-change framework can sustain mens initial interest in the therapeutic option and, beyond that, in a transformative relationship. In such a way, Brooks concludes, the transtheoretical model advances a hesitant male client from the level of consciousness-raising and awareness of gender role strain to the level of action and change, as the locus of therapeutic agency shifts from the therapist to the client himself.
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Publisher:
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published:
2010
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17783556699
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. xiii, 221 p.; 27 cm. LCCN 2009030800 Type of material Book Personal name Brooks, Gary R., 1946-Main title Beyond the crisis of masculinity: a transtheoretical model for male-friendly therapy / Gary R. Brooks. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c2010. Description xiii, 221 p.; 27 cm. ISBN 9781433807169 1433807165 LC classification RC451.4. M45 B754 2010 Contents The crisis of masculinity--How psychotherapy has failed boys and men--Therapeutic interventions outside the therapist's office--On the doorstep--engaging men in psychotherapy--Male-friendly psychotherapy for boys and men--The challenge of diverse masculinities--A transtheoretical model. LC Subjects Men--Mental health. Men--Counseling of. Masculinity. Other Subjects Men--psychology. Psychotherapy--methods. Masculinity. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 616.890081 National bib agency no. 101525229 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn429749116
Publisher:
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published:
2009
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17227300394
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