Counseling With Addicted Men

Haberstroh, Shane; Duffey, Thelma; Englar‐Carlson, Matt

doi:10.1002/9781119221593.ch13

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“…Several informative articles, chapters, and books were excluded owing to their focusing on specific populations, psychotherapeutic approaches, or other excluding criteria. These included texts addressing males specifically associated with race (Liu, Iwamoto, & Chae, 2010), developmental stages (Kiselica, 2005; Vacca-Haase, Wester, & Christianson, 2011; Verhaagen, 2011), fathering (Oren & Oren, 2010), sexuality (Kocet, 2014), vocation (Carrola & Corbin-Burdick, 2015), and specific issues such as depression (Grove, 2012) and addictions (Haberstroh & Duffey, 2014).…”

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Recommendations for male-friendly individual counseling with men: A qualitative systematic literature review for the period 1995–2016.

Beel

Jeffries

Brownlow

et al. 2018

Psychology of Men & Masculinity

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Over the past few decades, there have been calls to customize therapy for men. Researchers have increasingly become aware of the impact of masculinity on men and their psychological health, their willingness to seek help, and their experience of therapy. Recommendations have been published for how to enhance engagement and therapeutic change for men in counseling. This article systematically collected and examined recommendations for individual male-friendly therapy from 44 sources written over a 21-year period to identify common themes using qualitative methodology. The resulting 4 themes included knowledge about men, masculinity, and socialization; therapist critical self-awareness and commitment; masculinity-informed treatment adaptations; and masculinity-informed tasks and goals. The themes were discussed in relation to relevant research and similar diversity-sensitive approaches, including different ways that masculinity knowledge was incorporated into treatment and the ethical implications of targeting traditional masculinity for change. Increased empirical research on malefriendly counseling is needed to validate existing recommendations.

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Section: Recommendations and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recommendations for male-friendly individual counseling with men: A qualitative systematic literature review for the period 1995–2016.

Beel

Jeffries

Brownlow

et al. 2018

Psychology of Men & Masculinity

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“…The positive psychology/positive masculinity model of psychotherapy, for example, represents a positive trend in the field of men’s studies to understand common strengths of men, the behaviors and attitudes of healthy men, and to generate evidence-based literature concerning interventions that have therapeutic efficacy within different subgroups (Kiselica & Englar-Carlson, 2010). These therapeutic models acknowledge that men may benefit from various adaptations and alternatives to traditional psychotherapy (Lomas et al, 2016; Robertson & Fitzgerald, 1992; Scholz & Hall, 2014) in order to overcome barriers related to masculine self-concepts that limit help-seeking and reduce intervention efficacy (e.g., Addis & Mahalik, 2003; Hoy, 2012; Primack et al, 2010; Sagar-Ouriaghli et al, 2019; Susukida et al, 2015). Scheinfeld et al (2011), for instance, argued for “adventure therapy” as an effective masculinity-sensitive approach that offers men a short, intense, risky shared experience in nature.…”

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“I could just exist … not in a box”: Experiential examinations of masculinity within a contemporary men’s group.

Choi,

Sabey

2024

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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Traditional Western conceptualizations of masculinity portray men as stoic, strong, and competitive, leaving little room for men to know and express more vulnerable parts of themselves. Men's groups, or group-level interventions to support issues of men's health, may be helpful in challenging stigmas that limit help-seeking and emotional expression. To better understand the phenomenological experience of individuals participating in men's groups and how attitudes toward masculinity change, we interviewed 14 men enrolled in a 6-week men's group program. Based on our analyses of the interviews, we present a grounded theory explanation for how men come to understand and reshape their attitudes toward masculinity. We found that men's groups provide an arena where vulnerability can be expressed and received with empathy and respect to give rise to experiences of belonging. This gives men new information on what it means to be as "strong as a man." Public Significance StatementThis study builds on past research that has argued that masculinity is socially constructed and that traditional views of masculinity may be contributing to poorer mental health outcomes. Based on qualitative accounts of experiences in a contemporary men's group, these groups may be an effective means of reconceptualizing what it means to "be a man." Our findings suggest that sharing (and observing other men share) distress and being met with respect, rather than disdain, offers a sense of belongingness that challenges and redefines their attitudes toward masculinity.

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Counseling With Addicted Men

Cited by 2 publications

References 49 publications

Recommendations for male-friendly individual counseling with men: A qualitative systematic literature review for the period 1995–2016.

Recommendations for male-friendly individual counseling with men: A qualitative systematic literature review for the period 1995–2016.

“I could just exist … not in a box”: Experiential examinations of masculinity within a contemporary men’s group.

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