Trauma, Addiction and Men: Create Connection, Increase Vulnerability and Improve Treatment Outcomes with the Male Client – Megan Howard

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Don’t be weak, don’t ask for help, don’t cry, don’t show emotion.

These damaging expectations of masculinity are ruining your sessions, causing many male clients to bottle up the shame of past traumas, struggle to be vulnerable and open in therapy, and labor to leave emotion numbing drugs behind.

It can make therapeutic progress seem impossible and leave you frustrated, questioning your competence, and feeling powerless when nothing you try seems to work.

Treat male clients with trauma and addiction issues more effectively than ever before!

No matter your own gender, this essential recording will give you exactly what you need to:

• Keep male clients from leaving treatment
• Experience more productive sessions with men who struggle with “talk” therapy
• Create greater openness in sessions with tips to overcome male shame and stigma
• Add value to the clinical techniques you already use for trauma and addiction work

Experience new levels of therapeutic success with the guidance and tailored approaches you need to meet the needs of men in therapy!

1. Assess how male roles and stereotypes are formed from society, culture, and family roles.
2. Analyze how self-esteem, self-worth, and self-efficacy are impacted through these roles and lead to maladaptive coping.
3. Determine how stereotyped behaviors drive rigid, addictive tendencies and develop solutions to increase willingness to change while keeping integrity intact.
4. Evaluate the clinical research related to suicide, substance abuse, and gender differences.
5. Integrate skills to help men increase their voice and choice since they are often the ‘forgotten, silent sufferers’ as it pertains to trauma.
6. Utilize reframing interventions, cognitive restructuring, and distress tolerance techniques that cultivate and demonstrate the importance of vulnerability and intimacy in their lives.

Male Gender Roles and Stereotypes: Understand What Drives the Behavior

• Male gender roles and stereotypes
• The meaning/impact of gender roles
• ACE Study
• Male messages and trauma
• Cultural differences among male messages
• Prevalence of trauma in men

Identify the Root of Trauma and Addiction in Men: Understand the Research and Effective Assessment

• The addicted family system
• Chaotic and rigid family roles
• Suicide rate among men
• Impact of opioid epidemic
• Current limitations of successful long term recovery with men
• Barriers of change in treatment for men

Open Male Clients to Vulnerability and Change: Clinical Interventions to Overcome Male Shame and Stigma

• Healthy power vs. abuse of power
• Interdependence, independence, and codependence
• Self-esteem and emotional sobriety
• Vulnerability and supporting/validating attempts of openness
• Cognitive-behavioral techniques
• Solution-focused techniques

Therapeutic Adjustments for Men Who Struggle with “Talk Therapy”: 5 Techniques to Get Off on the Right Foot and Keep Men in Treatment

• Trauma adaptation in men
• MTREM and Seeking Safety for Men and other effective treatment approaches
• Biopsychosocial considerations for the male in treatment
• The “strong man” techniques for connection, courage, and strength
• Meaning, redefining values, grounding, and self-regulation

Other Treatment Roadblocks: Solutions for Common Concerns When Treating Men

• Angry clients
• Boundary concerns
• Attachment
• Intimacy
• Suicidality
• Trust & vulnerability