How Do I Help Him?: A Practitioners Guide To Working With Boys And Men In Therapeutic Settings - Softcover

Gurian, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983995907 ISBN 13: 9780983995906

Publisher: Gurian Institute Press, 2011

Synopsis

Males are struggling throughout our culture experiencing trauma, violence, unemployment, school failure, under-motivation, and in many cases, destitution. Males are also underserved in the helping professions. Boys and men often feel that therapists, health care workers, and human services professionals are not as well informed or educated in what males need as they could be. Our offices are generally set up for sitting quietly in a chair and talking, rather than for physical movement, nonverbal techniques, thematic therapy, and other male-healthy strategies. Transformation in clinical practice grows from both new thinking and new doing. HOW DO I HELP HIM? helps transform theory and practice to include a deeper understanding of male development in therapy, health care, and human services. The book includes new logic models and practical tools and strategies that will transform your office, school, or other environment. These new models and tools do not replace present psychological theories, but instead blend with prevailing psychological theories to help ensure their effectiveness with boys and men. Throughout the book, readers also learn new ways to look at girls and women s lives, couple communication, and marriage and family issues. The lives of boys and girls and women and men are inextricably linked, and ever more so as our culture evolves. To take better care of boys and men is to help girls and women flourish, as well.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Gurian is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty five books, including The Wonder of Boys , The Wonder of Girls , Boys and Girls Learn Differently! , What Could He Be Thinking? and Leadership and the Sexes . He has been a mental health counselor in private practice for twenty one years, and previously taught at Gonzaga University. He lectures widely and has pioneered efforts to provide science-based gender theory and practice to professionals and clinicians around the world.

Review

In his insightful and practical new guide, HOW DO I HELP HIM?, Michael Gurian, explains why so many men and boys dislike traditional counseling. He argues persuasively that males may resist open-ended discussions of their feelings, but they are hungry for mentoring and eager to talk about their core issues of manhood and motivation. This guide is filled with many helpful examples for engaging the male brain. I recommend this book for any therapist who has ever been frustrated in their attempts to reach a men and boys---and that s all of us! ----Michael Thompson, Ph.D., author of IT S A BOY!: YOUR SON S DEVELOPMENT FROM BIRTH TO EIGHTEEN, and writer/producer of the PBS special RAISING CAIN: PROTECTING THE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF BOYS
--Michael Thompson, Ph.D., author of IT S A BOY!: YOUR SON S DEVELOPMENT FROM BIRTH TO EIGHTEEN

In HOW DO I HELP HIM?, Michael Gurian captures eloquently why talk therapy is so often ineffective for males. Gurian's understanding of boys and men and his wisdom regarding how to alter our approaches can, and hopefully will, change the therapy landscape exponentially in the direction of being meaningful and effective. I highly recommend this book to everyone in the helping professions. ---JoAnn Deak, Ph.D., Author of GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS and HOW GIRLS THRIVE
--JoAnn Deak, Ph.D., Author of GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS and HOW GIRLS THRIVE
HOW DO I HELP HIM? is a must have and use now book that gives professionals fresh direction, insights, and strategies for working with boys and men. Written by Michael Gurian, one of the world s foremost experts on male development, this book empowers and equips us to alter counseling environments and theories to work well with males. As Founder of a Counseling and Treatment Center 27 years ago, I only wish this groundbreaking book had been available earlier. --Gregory Jantz, Ph.D., Founder, the Center for Counseling and Health Resources, and Author of HEALING THE SCARS OF EMOTIONAL ABUSE
--Gregory Jantz, Ph.D., Founder, the Center for Counseling and Health Resources, and Author of HEALING THE SCARS OF EMOTIONAL ABUSE

Edition details

• Publisher: Gurian Institute Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0983995907
• ISBN 13: 9780983995906
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 226