Men in Mind is a 5 module, evidence-based, online CPD training program, shown to significantly improve practitioners’ confidence and competence to engage and respond to help-seeking men. It is a synthesis of the latest evidence-based techniques for engaging, motivating and responding to male clients and covers strategies for improved engagement and motivating male clients, understanding, and responding to men’s distress, and identifying and intervening in male suicidality. The course is delivered as a self-paced, interactive, flexible and interactive 8-hour activity, available over 6 months.
Men in Mind is a world-first, eLearning professional development activity targeted at psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors and other mental health professionals.
It aims to assist these professionals in better grasping the complexities of men’s mental health, male suicide and its link with masculinities. It equips clinicians with the skills to deliver care that engages, motivates, and connects with male clients, and to better understand how masculinities manifest and affect men’s mental health, suicidality, and its presentation.
This self-paced, interactive, 8-hour activity, is a synthesis of the latest evidence-based techniques. It covers strategies for improved engagement and motivating male clients, understanding, and responding to men’s distress, and identifying and intervening in male suicidality.
Participants will also receive access to useful worksheets and toolkits throughout the activity, and have access to the course for 6 months.
Course outline:
Module 1: Rebranding masculinity: Apply a gender lens to men's behaviour.
Module 2: Your gender, your practice: Conduct a self-directed gender role analysis.
Module 3: The hook: Strengths-based strategies to engage and motivate male patients in psychotherapy.
Module 4: The depressed man: Screening tools for male-type depression.
Module 5: The suicidal man: Saving those thousand lives. The role of masculinities in male suicidality.
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Presenter:
Dr Zac Seidler, PhD, MClinPsyc
Disclaimer:
The content of this endorsed CPD course is provided by the external course provider. Attendees are encouraged to approach the material with an open mind and consider diverse perspectives, particularly those from lived experiences related to the topics discussed. For feedback regarding the course, please contact the course provider directly.