Recommendations for male-friendly counselling with adolescent males
Duration: 17 mins
Publication Date: 3 Apr 2023
Next Review Date: 3 Apr 2023
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23535
Description
In this Papers Podcast, Micah Boerma discusses his CAMH paper ‘Review: Recommendations for male-friendly counselling with adolescent males: A qualitative systematic literature review’. Micah is the first author of the review.
Learning Objectives
1. The importance of focusing on the experiences of young males receiving psychological treatment.
2. Why young males are so reluctant to engage in professional help-seeking and also quick to discontinue treatment compared to females.
3. What emerged in terms of therapists’ assumptions or biases or any views they had about the specific challenges of working with young men.
4. Did the biases apply equally regardless of the gender of the therapist?
5. What is male friendly counselling and what recommendations are there for therapists to adapt their practice to better engage this population?
6. Recommendations and resources for therapists/practitioners who want to become more gender-informed in their practices.
