Title: Helping men change : the role of the female therapist /
Authors: Erickson, Beth M.
Publisher: SAGE Publications,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Men Mental health; Women psychotherapists.; Psychotherapy; Psychotherapist and patient.; Psychotherapy; Role; Physician-Patient Relations
Abstract: Helping Men Change addresses, from a therapist's perspective, some of the primary concerns women have about working with male clients. It discusses the therapeutic skills and the personal competencies that are essential when women work with men, and focuses on empowering female therapists to work as effectively and confidently with men as they do with women. It provides guidelines for improving clinical decision making when planning treatment and offers specific examples of sessions designed to help male clients deal with particularly difficult issues, such as becoming more effective participants in intimate relationships. An excellent resource for family, individual, or group therapists, Helping Men Change will be of interest to psychologists, pastoral counselors, clinical social workers, and psychiatrists who provide psychotherapy, whatever the particular treatment modality with which they work. Students of clinical and counseling psychology, gender studies, and human services will also find this an important resource.
Contents: Foreword / Frank Pittman. 1. Introduction: The Threads That Connect -- pt. I. The Person of the Therapist. 2. What Women Must Be and Do to Work Effectively With Men. 3. Pitfalls When Women Work With Men -- pt. II. The Art of Treatment Planning. 4. Overview of the Tapestry: The Grid for the Model. 5. The Process of Therapy: To Generate Development or Merely to Teach Skills? -- pt. III. Backdrop for Structuring Treatment. 6. A Primer on Systems Thinking. 7. Unresolved Loss: A Barrier to Intimacy -- pt. IV. Guidelines for Treatment Planning. 8. Training Wheels for Better Relationships: Individual Therapy. 9. It Takes Two to Tango: Couples Therapy. 10. Sitting in a Roomful of Fathers: Men's Group Therapy. 11. The Major Surgery of Psychotherapy: The Extended Family of Origin Session -- pt. V. Epilogue. 12. Some Treatment Disappointments. 13. Shapers in a Social Revolution -- or Reactors to It.