Transforming psychotherapy in order to succeed with adolescent boys: male-friendly practices.
The purpose of this article is to describe a "male-friendly" therapeutic process with troubled adolescent boys. A male-friendly process is one in which the therapist employs a wide variety of strategies and activities that are likely to appeal to male youth and that facilitate the establishment and maintenance of rapport. The nuances of practicing a male-friendly approach are highlighted and then applied in a case study of psychotherapy with a depressed adolescent boy. The implications of this approach for redefining professional conceptions about boundaries in the client-therapist relationship and reexamining inaccurate stereotypes about the emotional lives of boys are discussed.
Kiselica
Mark S
MS
Department of Counselor Education, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718, USA. kiselica@tcnj.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D004644:Emotions; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D013240:Stereotyping