SOCIAL WORK WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES: HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL POLICY, edited by Waldo E. Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 360 pp. African American males as a demographic group face unparalleled rates of premature mortality, incarceration, homicide, HIV /AIDS and many other illnesses. In addition, this group suffers high rates of unemployment, underemployment, educational failure and many other barriers to economic opportunity. Causes of all of these problems are rooted deeply in the very structure of our society. Given the widespread and serious societal challenges facing this group, it is surprising that in the area of social work African American males have received so little attention up to now. For this reason, Social Work with African American Males: Health, Mental Health and Social Policy represents an especially significant volume, a veritable breakthrough in promoting awareness in the field of social sciences on behalf of this often-neglected group. Overall, the book is a well organized compilation of relevant articles. The topics of focus are well-selected and of compelling importance. Editor Waldo E. Johnson opens with an engaging essay on the social trajectories of African American males through the course of life while outlining the organization of the assemblage of articles to follow. A specific area of emphasis is successful African-American male family participation. Constance Dallas and Karen Kavanaugh explore the unmarried adolescent father's role in pregnancy, and Keven Roy et al. examine the subject of intergenerational support and reciprocity between low income African American fathers and their aging mothers. David J. Pate provides deep insight on the problems faced by African American fathers with welfare reliant children and their frequently adversarial relationship with the child support enforcement system. Joseph Richardson looks at socially supportive African American male role models for at-risk African American youth in single female headed households. Dexter Voisin and Torsten Neilands report the results of a study on adolescent African American male sexual behaviors as impacted by school engagement and peer influence. Another critically important matter facing African American males, that of educational underachievement, is addressed by Reginald Clark et al. in their report on the demonstrable positive effects of after-school programs for African American males on their development and educational progress. Eddie Comeaux speaks to the academic engagement of the black male student athlete. In the often neglected area of African American male mental health, Michael A. …
《非裔美国男性的社会工作:健康、心理健康和社会政策》，沃尔多·e·约翰逊主编。纽约:牛津大学出版社，2010。非裔美国男性作为一个人口群体，面临着前所未有的过早死亡、监禁、凶杀、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和许多其他疾病的比率。此外，这一群体遭受高失业率、就业不足、教育失败和许多其他经济机会障碍的困扰。所有这些问题的根源都深深植根于我们的社会结构。鉴于这一群体所面临的广泛而严重的社会挑战，令人惊讶的是，在社会工作领域，非洲裔美国男性迄今为止很少受到关注。因此，《与非裔美国人男性的社会工作:健康、心理健康和社会政策》是一部特别重要的著作，代表这一经常被忽视的群体，在促进社会科学领域的认识方面取得了真正的突破。总的来说，这本书是一本组织良好的相关文章汇编。重点主题是精心挑选的，具有引人注目的重要性。编辑Waldo E. Johnson以一篇引人入胜的文章开篇讲述了非裔美国男性一生的社会轨迹同时概述了接下来文章的组织结构。一个特别强调的领域是成功的非裔美国男性家庭参与。Constance Dallas和Karen Kavanaugh探讨了未婚的青春期父亲在怀孕中的作用，Keven Roy等人研究了低收入的非裔美国父亲和他们年迈的母亲之间的代际支持和互惠的主题。David J. Pate对非裔美国父亲所面临的问题提供了深刻的见解，他们的孩子依赖福利，他们与儿童抚养执法系统之间经常存在对抗关系。约瑟夫·理查森(Joseph Richardson)着眼于单身女性户主家庭中处于危险中的非裔美国青年的社会支持非裔美国男性榜样。Dexter Voisin和Torsten Neilands报告了一项关于青少年非裔美国男性性行为受学校参与和同伴影响影响的研究结果。非裔美国男性面临的另一个至关重要的问题是教育成绩不理想，Reginald Clark等人在他们的报告中谈到了非裔美国男性的课外活动对他们的发展和教育进步的明显积极影响。Eddie comaux谈到了黑人男学生运动员的学业投入。在经常被忽视的非裔美国男性心理健康领域，Michael A. ...
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{"title":"Health Issues in Latino Males: A Social and Structural Approach","authors":"R. Muñoz","doi":"10.5860/choice.48-2120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.48-2120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88000,"journal":{"name":"International journal of men's health","volume":"10 1","pages":"272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71131605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INJURED MEN: TRAUMA, HEALING, AND THE MASCULINE SELF, by Ira Brenner. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson Publishers, 2009, 241 pp. In Injured Men: Trauma, Healing, and the Masculine Self, Ira Brenner draws on his experiences as clinician and administrator to present a variety of forms of trauma and traumatic experiences that shape men's lives, including relational-, genocide-, and warbased trauma. Working from a psychodynamic perspective, Brenner uses wonderfully rich case examples to present an organized approach to the discussion of trauma and healing. He begins with an updated theory about the etiology and course of dissociative identity disorder (DID), tracing its trajectory from childhood trauma, and identifying dissociation as the preferred defense across the lifespan from infant attachment through adulthood. Adding to the work of Winnicott, Mahler, Kohut, and Stern, Brenner offers a dimensional and relational construction of the disorder, characterized by impaired object- and self-constancy. He describes how an individual's impaired self- and object-constancy couple with the tendency to dissociate when faced with trauma, perpetuating states of awareness and unawareness, presence and absence, and being "me and not me" (p. 29). Brenner begins this discussion of DID from a most intriguing angle, focusing first on cases of female patients who developed male "alters" as protective mechanisms. In these discussions, Brenner explains the tendency of the male alters to seek self-protection by eschewing anything feminine, linking this phenomenon to what many have described as part of "normative" male development. His choice to begin the DID discussion around the development of male alters in women provides excellent opportunity for commentary about cultural notions of men as protectors of women, and a heuristic for exploring cross-gender commonalities in psychological development. At various turns throughout the text, Brenner provides additional insights into the masculine self by framing clients' worldview within traditionally "male" values and discussing traditional male occupations. The text is laced with a number of engaging topics, including annotated sessions with a Vietnam veteran, the impact of September 11 on work with traumatic experiences, the delicacy involved with termination, and outcomes of patients reading their own case reports. Brenner strikes perhaps his strongest note in chapter 5 (A Time Traveling Man), in which he links clients' misperceptions of time with their identification with their parents' trauma-a commentary bolstered later in the text through attention to biological perspectives on nature of trauma and psychological resilience. Although I enjoyed the text very much, I found myself wanting to learn more about the author's model of normative male psychological development. At various points, Brenner hints at his notion of the masculine self and how it develops in response to trauma, healing, and resilience. …
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The present pilot study examined the efficacy of a brief expressive writing intervention for helping testicular cancer (TC) survivors manage psychological, relational, and health complications associated with treatment and recovery. 48 men reported on mental health, quality of life, and sexual health, then took part in a 5- week expressive writing intervention. Afterward, all participants again reported on the same measures used in the pre-test. A total of 28 men completed at least two writing sessions and were included in the analysis. Results revealed that, compared to men in both the negative expression and control conditions, men in the positive expression group experienced improvements in their mental health over the course of the 5-week trial.
{"title":"Expressive Writing Improves Subjective Health Among Testicular Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study","authors":"Perry M. Pauley, Mark T. Morman, Kory Floyd","doi":"10.3149/JMH.1003.199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/JMH.1003.199","url":null,"abstract":"The present pilot study examined the efficacy of a brief expressive writing intervention for helping testicular cancer (TC) survivors manage psychological, relational, and health complications associated with treatment and recovery. 48 men reported on mental health, quality of life, and sexual health, then took part in a 5- week expressive writing intervention. Afterward, all participants again reported on the same measures used in the pre-test. A total of 28 men completed at least two writing sessions and were included in the analysis. Results revealed that, compared to men in both the negative expression and control conditions, men in the positive expression group experienced improvements in their mental health over the course of the 5-week trial.","PeriodicalId":88000,"journal":{"name":"International journal of men's health","volume":"10 1","pages":"199-219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69857770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Brennan, R. Crath, T. Hart, T. Gadalla, L. Gillis
Evidence suggests that gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) score higher than heterosexual-identifying men on disordered eating symptomology (DES). This exploratory study examined if the following psychosocial factors were associated with DES among a diverse sample of MSM: race, age, sexual identity, sexual risk, substance use, depression, history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and internalized homophobia. Using cross sectional data collected at “Pride Toronto 2008” (N = 383), multivariate analysis revealed the following factors to be associated with DES: CSA, depression, being White (vs. Black or Asian), being younger, and engaging in behaviours to increase muscle mass. These results may inform the development of useful and efficacious interventions to reduce the risks associated with body dissatisfaction and DES among MSM.
有证据表明，男同性恋、双性恋和其他与男性发生性关系的男性(MSM)在饮食失调症状(DES)方面的得分高于异性恋男性。本探索性研究考察了以下社会心理因素在不同MSM样本中是否与DES相关:种族、年龄、性别认同、性风险、药物使用、抑郁、儿童期性虐待史(CSA)和内化同性恋恐惧症。利用“2008年多伦多骄傲节”(Pride Toronto 2008)收集的横断面数据(N = 383)，多变量分析揭示了与DES相关的以下因素:CSA、抑郁、白人(相对于黑人或亚洲人)、年轻以及参与增加肌肉量的行为。这些结果可能为开发有用和有效的干预措施提供信息，以减少男男性行为者中与身体不满和DES相关的风险。
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Suicide is one of the leading causes of male mortality. In nearly every country in the world, more males than females end their life by suicide. Previous research indicates male-specific risk factors include social factors such as being unmarried, low income, and unemployment. An analytic model of male suicide is developed, proposing that the traditional male gender role creates a culturally-conditioned narrowing of perceived options and cognitive rigidity when under stress that increases male suicide risk. Suicide prevention and intervention require recognition of the role of high traditional masculinity, situating individual explanations within a broader social context. Based on this theory and the few existing empirical studies, testable hypotheses are proposed.
{"title":"The Social Nature of Male Suicide: A New Analytic Model","authors":"D. Coleman, M. Kaplan, J. Casey","doi":"10.3149/JMH.1003.240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/JMH.1003.240","url":null,"abstract":"Suicide is one of the leading causes of male mortality. In nearly every country in the world, more males than females end their life by suicide. Previous research indicates male-specific risk factors include social factors such as being unmarried, low income, and unemployment. An analytic model of male suicide is developed, proposing that the traditional male gender role creates a culturally-conditioned narrowing of perceived options and cognitive rigidity when under stress that increases male suicide risk. Suicide prevention and intervention require recognition of the role of high traditional masculinity, situating individual explanations within a broader social context. Based on this theory and the few existing empirical studies, testable hypotheses are proposed.","PeriodicalId":88000,"journal":{"name":"International journal of men's health","volume":"10 1","pages":"240-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69858140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Little research has investigated formal psychosocial support use among men with cancer living in rural areas. The current study investigated perceived barriers to support service use among such men, within the framework of the Behavioral Model of Health Service Use. In a mixed methodology study, 82 men with cancer living in rural Australia were surveyed, and nine of these men, plus three health professionals, participated in semi-structured interviews. Reasons for not participating in formal support were sufficient informal support and subjective judgements about perceived need. Service availability was rarely endorsed by the men as a reason for non-participation, but was emphasised by health professionals. Identifying factors that impede or facilitate service use might enable rural men experiencing cancer-related distress to seek the extra psychosocial support they need.
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Social marketing for health has become a core component of UK government strategies to improving wellbeing and tackle inequalities amongst diverse populations, including men. Social marketing strategies adopt the methods of commercial marketing to promote social good through encouraging behavioural change in individuals. These methods have been employed with men in the UK as part of a wider movement to improve male health. Drawing on original empirical data collected with 50 unemployed men in the UK, this paper and considers men’s responses to social marketing strategies and their own understandings of health, its determinants and personal responsibility. Data presented illuminates men’s critical stance towards social marketing for health and its imperatives for behavioural change in the face of wider societal determinants of wellbeing which shape both their health behaviours and experiences. Critical discussions of the use of such strategies as part of neo-liberal models of health governance are offered.
{"title":"Men’s Understandings of Social Marketing and Health: Neo-Liberalism and Health Governance","authors":"P. Crawshaw, C. Newlove","doi":"10.3149/JMH.1002.136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/JMH.1002.136","url":null,"abstract":"Social marketing for health has become a core component of UK government strategies to improving wellbeing and tackle inequalities amongst diverse populations, including men. Social marketing strategies adopt the methods of commercial marketing to promote social good through encouraging behavioural change in individuals. These methods have been employed with men in the UK as part of a wider movement to improve male health. Drawing on original empirical data collected with 50 unemployed men in the UK, this paper and considers men’s responses to social marketing strategies and their own understandings of health, its determinants and personal responsibility. Data presented illuminates men’s critical stance towards social marketing for health and its imperatives for behavioural change in the face of wider societal determinants of wellbeing which shape both their health behaviours and experiences. Critical discussions of the use of such strategies as part of neo-liberal models of health governance are offered.","PeriodicalId":88000,"journal":{"name":"International journal of men's health","volume":"10 1","pages":"136-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69857492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Proposed Australian health system reforms allude to health literacy as a major lever for a ‘well informed public’ and helping individuals assume more responsibility for their health. New national men’s and women’s health policies also acknowledge, to varying degrees, the importance of health literacy, but with little indication of why gender might be relevant. This omission reflects the absence of a coherent evidence base on health literacy and gender in Australia as well as in countries where health literacy has been more extensively examined. A lack of consensus on approaches to defining, measuring, and reporting on health literacy adds to the difficulties. We propose that viewing health literacy through a “gender lens” would contribute to building a much-needed evidence base about men’s health literacy.
{"title":"Men’s Health Literacy in Australia: In Search of a Gender Lens","authors":"A. Peerson, Margo Saunders","doi":"10.3149/JMH.1002.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/JMH.1002.111","url":null,"abstract":"Proposed Australian health system reforms allude to health literacy as a major lever for a ‘well informed public’ and helping individuals assume more responsibility for their health. New national men’s and women’s health policies also acknowledge, to varying degrees, the importance of health literacy, but with little indication of why gender might be relevant. This omission reflects the absence of a coherent evidence base on health literacy and gender in Australia as well as in countries where health literacy has been more extensively examined. A lack of consensus on approaches to defining, measuring, and reporting on health literacy adds to the difficulties. We propose that viewing health literacy through a “gender lens” would contribute to building a much-needed evidence base about men’s health literacy.","PeriodicalId":88000,"journal":{"name":"International journal of men's health","volume":"10 1","pages":"111-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69857836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Despite understanding of the negative outcomes for children in a household with a depressed parent, fathers who experience postadoption depression have not been studied. This exploratory study describes adoption professionals’ perceptions of fathers’ experiences with postadoption depression. Twenty-five professionals who interact with adoptive families returned completed web-based survey data. Overall, respondents reported that fathers who experienced postadoption depression, were perceived as more likely to become disengaged from the family, and more likely to display anger and frustration rather than sadness or melancholy. Respondents appear divided on whether the adoptive father’s depression was a reaction to the mother’s depression. Mental health professionals should consider gender differences in depressive symptoms when assessing and treating adoptive fathers.
{"title":"Sad Adoptive Dads: Paternal Depression in the Post-Adoption Period","authors":"K. Foli, G. Gibson","doi":"10.3149/JMH.1002.153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/JMH.1002.153","url":null,"abstract":"Despite understanding of the negative outcomes for children in a household with a depressed parent, fathers who experience postadoption depression have not been studied. This exploratory study describes adoption professionals’ perceptions of fathers’ experiences with postadoption depression. Twenty-five professionals who interact with adoptive families returned completed web-based survey data. Overall, respondents reported that fathers who experienced postadoption depression, were perceived as more likely to become disengaged from the family, and more likely to display anger and frustration rather than sadness or melancholy. Respondents appear divided on whether the adoptive father’s depression was a reaction to the mother’s depression. Mental health professionals should consider gender differences in depressive symptoms when assessing and treating adoptive fathers.","PeriodicalId":88000,"journal":{"name":"International journal of men's health","volume":"10 1","pages":"153-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69857531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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