What you'll learn

Practical skills you can start implementing in your practice straight away, and gain a new toolkit to support your work with male clients. Self-paced learning allows you to complete the course in your own time, and gain CPD points. 

Course overview

MODULE 1

Rebranding Masculinity

  • Apply a 'gender lens' to men's behaviour in psychotherapy
  • Recognise situations where societal expectations of masculinities are enforced
  • Conceptualise men's distress in terms of gender role strain theory
Module 2

Your gender, your practice, your rules

  • Conduct a self-directed gender role analysis
  • Identify clinical situations where your gender socialisation may interact with your client's masculinities
  • Adapt your practice by leveraging your gender role model to male clients
MODULE 3

The hook: Engagement and motivation

  • Apply strengths based strategies to engage and motivate male clients in psychotherapy
  • Utilise strategies to assist male clients who cannot or will not describe their emotional experiences
  • Apply metaphors in psychotherapy to assist male clients to engage with their emotional experiences
Module 4

The depressed man

  • Recognise reasons for the differences in rates of depression diagnosis between men and women
  • Apply screening tools to effectively recognise and screen for male-type depression
  • Incorporate masculinities into a response toolkit for men's depression, across internalising and externalising symptoms
MODULE 5

The suicidal man: Saving those thousand lives

  • Recognise the role of masculinities in the development of suicidality in men
  • Identify warning signs for suicide risk in men
  • Leverage masculinities when engaging men in your intervention for suicidality