Overview

Men in Mind is a world-first, eLearning professional development activity targeted at psychologists 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, 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 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.

Participants will also receive access to useful worksheets and toolkits throughout the activity.

Program 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.

APS CPD-Approved

This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality. Learn more about the APS CPD Approval process.

Target audience

This activity is suitable for psychologists and mental health professionals in all career stages.

Level of Learning

Foundational/Intermediate.This activity is targeted to those new to the topic and those who have some previous learning on the topic.

Duration of access

Participants will have access to this activity for a period of 6 months from the date of confirmed enrolment.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

MODULE 1: Rebranding masculinity

• Apply a gender lens to understand men's behaviour in therapy.
• Recognise situations where societal expectations of masculinities are enforced. 
• Conceptualise men's distress in terms of gender role strain theory.

MODULE 2: Your gender, your practice

• Conduct a self-directed gender role analysis.
• Identify clinical situations where your gender socialisation may interact with your client's masculinities.
• Adapt your practice by leveraging your gender to be a role model to male clients.

MODULE 3: The hook

• Apply strength-based strategies to engage and motivate male patients in psychotherapy.
• Utilise strategies to assist male clients who cannot or will not describe their emotional experiences.
• Apply metaphors in psychotherapy to assist male clients to engage with their emotional experiences.

MODULE 4: The depressed man

• Recognise reasons for differences in rates of depression between men and women.
• Apply screening tools to effectively recognise and screen for "male-type" depression.
• Incorporate masculinities into a response toolkit for men's depression, across internalising and externalising symptoms.

MODULE 5: Saving those thousand lives

• Recognise the role of masculinities in the development of suicidality in men.
• Identify warning signs for suicide risk in men.
• Leverage masculinities when engaging men in your intervention for suicidality.

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