10 Tips on Counseling Men (2015 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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September 22, 2015
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday, listener Samantha wrote into the podcast and she said, in my internship site, I have a majority of male clients and I am looking for a little help in navigating the therapeutic relationship as a woman with male clients. |
| 0:14.9 | Yesterday, I said that I would talk about it today. And at first, I thought I was just going to respond to it quickly and briefly in a way that I will often do. |
| 0:26.1 | But since right now I'm between terms, I have a little extra time. |
| 0:30.2 | So I decided to delve into the literature a little bit. |
| 0:32.9 | And I went down a rabbit hole. |
| 0:35.2 | And I am now emerging after contemplating my work with male clients |
| 0:41.7 | and after reading a lot of the literature, I decided to actually write a paper on the topic |
| 0:47.2 | and present a sort of rough draft to you here. This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I am your loyal host, Dr. Kirkonda. I am chair of |
| 0:58.3 | the Coupland Family Therapy Program at Antioch University Seattle, and I'm also licensed therapist. |
| 1:04.2 | Okay, so let's get into it, shall we? All right. So the first thing I want to say is the title of this podcast. I'm going to call it 10 tips on how to counsel men. So pretty easy to understand title to this podcast and the paper I'm writing. I'm going to eventually post this paper, I think, on the podcast website, Psychology and Seattle.com. But I might also submit it to |
| 1:30.8 | publication. I'm not sure. Anyway, first thing I want to say is that therapists are generally untrained |
| 1:37.0 | when it comes to treating men in therapy. So listener Samantha is not alone in feeling a little insecure about her skills regarding working |
| 1:48.8 | with male clients. |
| 1:50.2 | Research has found that therapists are undertrained regarding the psychology of men and how to |
| 1:55.1 | help them in spite of many faculty members and many students saying that the psychology of men is an important |
| 2:03.0 | area of research and an important area of training. For example, there's been research |
| 2:08.3 | interviewing male therapists, male therapists in training across the United States regarding |
| 2:14.1 | their experience of gender training and found that the male therapists in |
| 2:18.7 | training, they were saying that when they're in graduate school, they find that they're often |
| 2:24.6 | silenced in discussions in class because most graduate programs are dominated by females, |
| 2:30.7 | like something like 80%ish of the students are female. You know, not that that means |
| 2:36.6 | necessarily that men are going to be silenced, but, you know, in the liberal world, it's much |
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