Developing therapeutic relationships with men is reported to be an important factor in decreasing the rates of dropouts from counseling. What strategies do you take as a counsellor to develop therapeutic relationship with men?
About the speakers:
Christy Chan is a perioperative nurse with a focus on urology. She is working toward her thesis by investigating the experiences and perspectives of Canadian healthcare providers who work with men in building relationships.
Dr. Links is Professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada. From 2012 until 2016, Dr. Links served as the Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, Chief of Psychiatry, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario. Prior to coming to Western University, Dr. Links was holder of the Arthur Sommer Rotenberg Chair in Suicide Studies, University of Toronto for three terms.
David Kealy, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Psychotherapy Program at the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar, and a member of the UBC Men’s Health Research Program. His research interests include identity- and personality-related mental health difficulties, along with psychodynamic and integrative approaches to psychotherapy. He also teaches and maintains a private practice in psychotherapy.
Dr. Zac Seidler is a Clinical Psychologist, the Director of Mental Health Training at Movember and a Senior Research Fellow with Orygen at The University of Melbourne. Zac has devoted several years to the goal of reducing the staggering male suicide rate, treating and researching men’s mental health with over 70 peer-reviewed articles published. Zac has worked clinically with men of different ages and presentations from adolescents with early psychosis to older HIV+ men struggling with adjustment. Zac has appeared on the ABC, BBC, Sky News and in The Guardian, The Age and Vice for his work.
About us:
The Reducing Male Suicide (RMS) Research Excellence Cluster is affiliated with the Men's Health Research Program at the University of British Columbia. RMS aims to purposefully work across UBC faculties and externally with national and international partners to create and mobilize knowledge to de-stigmatize men’s mental illness and suicidality, reduce disparities in care, and lead effective male suicide prevention interventions globally. (reducingmalesuicide.ubc.ca)