Bücher der Reihe The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men

Provides practitioners with information about the process of understanding and engaging an array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. This book contains case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. It also covers adjustment issues, and strategies for establishing rapport.

Our understanding of the fundamental differences in child development, behavior, and emotional maturity between boys and girls has increased dramatically. This title contains the information and tools a facilitator needs in order to implement and maintain the boys groups.

The scholarly research tells us that adolescent boys and young men have the highest rates of behavioral problems, completed suicides, and drug and alcohol problems of any demographic group. This title presents a model of therapy with young men that addresses each of these concerns.

Provides a contextual understanding of the clinical issues that affect men and masculinity across a wide range of cultural and national settings. This book offers insight into the socio-cultural contexts for counseling men in and from their respective countries by exploring the ways in which 'being a man' is socially defined.

This edited book is the first of its kind to focus on creative approaches to the treatment of boys, providing a valuable resource for both students and professionals seeking new and effective strategies for reaching their young male clients. Chapters discuss the theory behind and implementation of various creative approaches to therapy with boys, such as play therapy, including sports, movement, and gross-motor activity; animal-assisted therapy; the use of computers and digital animation; the use of superheroes in role play, metaphor, and play therapy; and art therapy. Attention is also given to methods for working with five special populations: angry and aggressive boys; young boys with ADHD; boys with sexual behavior difficulties; gender variant and sexual minority boys; and African American boys with non-resident or absent fathers.

This book will help practitioners overcome one of the leading challenges in couples therapy: working effectively with the male partner. Men have unique needs and psychological issues that many clinicians may not recognize or know how to address. This volume presents chapters by the leading practitioners associated with current therapeutic models, including Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Integrated Behavioral Couple Therapy, and more. Using in-depth case examples, they demonstrate how their approaches can be adapted to be "male-sensitive" and respond to the ambivalence so many men experience about couples work. Special topics are also addressed, including infidelity, cultural diversity, working with veterans, and fathering issues. This book will enrich therapists work with couples, making treatment a welcoming experience for both partners and the treatment process more gratifying for the therapist.

"This edited book looks at how a variety of female therapists understand men's issues in the context of their clinical work. Each chapter is written by a female mental health professional and explores how they got involved in men's issues, case studies and examples from their own practices that illustrate their approach, and their own assessments of what works best with male clients"--

Breaking Barriers in Counseling Men is a unique collection of personal and engaging contributions from nationally recognized scholars and clinicians with expertise in treating men. The editors have selected men¿s clinicians who address areas as diverse as sexual dysfunction, male bonding over sports, father-son relationships, and counseling men in the military.

Counseling Gay Men, Adolescents, & Boys: A Strengths-Based Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators provides practitioners and educators with critical information needed to help navigate the therapeutic and educational terrain of working with gay males.