Gender Matters: Working with Adult Male Survivors of Trauma

✍ Scribed by Ximena E. Mejía

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 181 KB
• Volume: 83
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1556-6678
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2005.tb00577.x

✦ Synopsis

There has been a great deal of attention given to the application of feminist therapy in treating women, but there is little written about feminist therapy and its applications in treating men. Gender role analysis has proven to be effective in developing hope, resilience, and transcendence-3 primary sources in times of emotional distress. This article conceptualizes the treatment of men survivors of trauma at 2 levels: redefining masculinity and its legacies and confronting trauma and its legacies.