title: "Gender aware therapy" for professional men in a day treatment center.
abstract: High accountability men in the medical, legal, corporate, and mental health professions sometimes engage in behavior that violates their fiduciary responsibilities. These highly skilled men may engage in disruptive or explosive behavior, cross sexual boundaries with clients or patients, abuse substances, or have other psychiatric problems that compromise their workplace performance. When this occurs, licensing boards, professional societies, or supervising executives often require the dysregulated man to seek assistance. This article reports on ways the Professional Renewal Center incorporates recommendations from "Gender Aware Therapy" in developing a male-friendly approach to conducting comprehensive multidisciplinary psychological assessments, and to providing intensive, multimodal, weeks-long treatment services.
authors.affiliation: Professional Renewal Center, Lawrence, KS 66049, USA. jrobertson@prckansas.org
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: Betsy White
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D057228:Masculinity; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D009790:Occupations; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D028743:Professional Misconduct / Q000523:psychology; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D012951:Socialization