Help‐seeking and Man Therapy: The impact of an online suicide intervention

Gilgoff, Jon; Wagner, Fernando A.; Frey, Jodi Jacobson; Osteen, Philip

doi:10.1111/sltb.12929

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“…This study used a RCT to test the efficacy of MT over a three‐month follow‐up period to reduce SI and depression among working‐age men. While another important outcome of MT is to improve help‐seeking behaviors, this study focused on clinical outcomes—specifically SI and depression—while Gilgoff et al ( in press ) focused on broader help‐seeking behaviors resulting from use of MT as compared to the Control Condition, Healthy Men Michigan (HMM).…”

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Effectiveness of man therapy to reduce suicidal ideation and depression among working‐age men: A randomized controlled trial

Frey

Osteen

Sharpe

et al. 2022

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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Objective: This randomized controlled trial of the online intervention, man therapy (MT), evaluated efficacy to reduce suicidal ideation (SI) and depression among working-aged men. Method: Five-hundred and fifty-four men enrolled and 421 completed all surveys. Control Condition men explored the Healthy Men Michigan (HMM) website and Intervention Condition men explored HMM and MT. Hypotheses included men who used MT would report decreased SI and depression over time compared to Control Condition men. Results: Latent growth curve modeling revealed improvements in SI (slope = −0.23, p < 0.001, 95% CI: −0.29, −0.16) and depression (slope = −0.21, p < 0.001, 95% CI: −0.23, −0.18) over time for men in both groups; however, there was no difference in slope based on group assignment. Depression, lifetimeThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Effectiveness of man therapy to reduce suicidal ideation and depression among working‐age men: A randomized controlled trial

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Osteen

Sharpe

et al. 2022

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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“…An initial challenge is getting men to seek mental health services. "Man Therapy," an online suicide prevention initiative, was found to increase professional help-seeking in men (Gilgoff et al, 2023). Next, intervention services must be appropriate and appealing to men.…”

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A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.

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Dumas,

Glenn

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American Psychologist

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The states of the Mountain West region of the United States consistently have the highest rates of suicide in the country, a pattern particularly pronounced in older White men. Although multiple constructs have been proposed to explain this long-standing pattern, including social isolation, cultural values, and psychopathology, relatively little research has been conducted to directly examine the predictive role of these risk factors and how they interact. We review the extant research for these constructs to establish (a) whether the risk factor occurs at a higher rate or is otherwise more influential in this region compared to the rest of the country and (b) whether the risk factor may account for specific effects in older White men in order to determine whether the evidence supports the role of each risk factor in understanding the high rates of suicide among older White men in this region. Using the results of this review, we then present a possible cultural script for suicide based on cultural scripts of gender and suicide theory (Canetto, 1997(Canetto, , 2017(Canetto, , 2021 that describes who dies by suicide, the methods they use, their emotions and motives, and the cultural understanding of the causes and acceptability of their suicidal behaviors within the Mountain West. This cultural script can serve as a guide for researchers investigating the complex mechanisms that account for elevated rates of suicide in this region.

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“…They found not just a generally high and increasing (over 5 years) global interest in their website, but also considerable visitor engagement. Man Therapy , another online intervention program for men primarily based on CBT-concepts, has been found to improve men’s depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and professional help-seeking behavior in two individual randomized-controlled trials ( Frey et al, 2022 ; Gilgoff et al, 2022 ). Importantly, the “dosing” or amount of engagement with Man Therapy and whether other interventions were used simultaneously has so far not been accounted for.…”

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New directions in male-tailored psychotherapy for depression

2023

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Purpose of reviewSocietal, cultural, and contextual norms about how men should be and behave (so called traditional masculinity ideologies; TMI) affect men’s presentation of depressive disorders, psychotherapy use, and treatment engagement. Only recently, however, male-tailored psychotherapy approaches for depressive disorders have been developed, which aim to systematically soften dysfunctional TMI. In this review, we outline the necessary groundwork as well as recent advances in research on TMI, men’s help-seeking, male depression, and their interrelatedness. Subsequently, we discuss the potential value of these findings for male-tailored psychotherapy for depressive disorders.Recent findingsA preliminary evaluation of a male-specific psychoeducation program found that a male-specific psychoeducation text could reduce negative affect as well as state shame and potentially elicit a shift from externalizing depression symptoms toward more prototypical depression symptoms. The James’ Place program, a male-tailored community-based service, improved suicidal men’s overall well-being, problems, functioning, and suicide risk. The Heads Up Guys! program, an eHealth resource aimed at depressed men, reported a high and increasing global interest in their website, with considerable visitor engagement. The Man Therapy online resource improved depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and help-seeking behavior. Finally, the Men in Mind program, an online training program for clinical practitioners, increased practitioners’ capacity to engage and support men in therapy.SummaryMale-tailored psychotherapy programs for depressive disorders, which are informed by recent advances in TMI research, may potentially increase therapeutic effectiveness, engagement, and adherence. While recent preliminary analyses of individual male-tailored treatment programs show promising results, extensive and systematic primary studies evaluating these programs are pending but greatly needed.

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Help‐seeking and Man Therapy: The impact of an online suicide intervention

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Effectiveness of man therapy to reduce suicidal ideation and depression among working‐age men: A randomized controlled trial

Effectiveness of man therapy to reduce suicidal ideation and depression among working‐age men: A randomized controlled trial

A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.

New directions in male-tailored psychotherapy for depression

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