At the American Counseling Association's annual conference in March, women predominated, as they do in the profession
That guy is going to be laughing during the bathroom break.
Posted on 05/22/2011 2:22:31 AM PDT by Cardhu
Between unresolved family conflicts, relationship struggles and his mixed-race identity, James Puckett had enough on his mind in college that he sought professional help. But after bouncing from one therapist to another, he still felt stuck.
“They were all female, and they did give me some comfort,” said Mr. Puckett, 30, who works for a domestic-abuse program in Wisconsin. “But I was getting the same rhetoric about changing my behavior without any challenge to see the bigger picture of what was behind these very male coping reactions, like putting your hand through a wall.”
He decided to seek out a male therapist instead, and found that there were few of them. “I’m just glad I ended up with the person I did,” said Mr. Puckett, who is no longer in therapy, “because for me it made all the difference.”
Researchers began tracking the “feminization” of mental health care more than a generation ago, when women started to outnumber men in fields like psychology and counseling. Today the takeover is almost complete.
Men earn only one in five of all master’s degrees awarded in psychology, down from half in the 1970s. They account for less than 10 percent of social workers under the age of 34, according to a recent survey. And their numbers have dwindled among professional counselors — to 10 percent of the American Counseling Association’s membership today from 30 percent in 1982 — and appear to be declining among marriage and family therapists.
Some college psychology programs cannot even attract male applicants, much less students. And at many therapists’ conferences, attendees with salt-and-pepper beards wander the hallways as lonely as peaceniks at a gun fair.
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Have fun...
Get over it!
There is no money in that advice. Thirty second sessions can’t justify big bucks from the needful.
I should have known. After all I think I coined the phrase “Simplifying is a complicated process.”
It’s ultimately the faith based counselors (of either gender) that do the best. With no Goal, it’s rather hard to aim at it.
One thing I’ve learned is that you are often what you do.
The best thing to do with unpleasent memories and the difficulties in handling them is ask yourself, “What would you do if you didn’t have this experience?”
Then go do that very thing.
That is an interesting thought. I will have to contemplate that and see if I can find something to apply it to. Not too many things bother me anymore but something is bound to come up whether new or something old resurfacing.
It doesn’t even have to be bad memories. It can simply be situations that your acting or reacting in ways that you aren’t happy with.
I would probably just fall asleep. I can do that at home.
That guy is going to be laughing during the bathroom break.
I see, yes, that makes sense. A way to deal with neurotic patterns of any kind. Followed by reflection on the results I can see how that could be very effective.
Those are the patients aren’t they? ;^)
I have found that people who enter that profession are the ones most in need of it.
That has been my experience as well. High suicide rate.
That is often very true.
They tie their self worth to whether somebody likes them or not.
It is also the root cause as to why they vote liberal and why liberals tend to use playground tactics when dealing with people they don’t like.
...”One thing I’ve learned is that you are often what you do.
The best thing to do with unpleasent memories and the difficulties in handling them is ask yourself, “What would you do if you didn’t have this experience?”
Then go do that very thing”...
I like your thinking!
Pull up your skirt and get it done.
Heard more than thirty years ago that three fourths of psychiatric patients are women. But then, I’ve always heeded this advice:
“Out here, pilgrim, a man learns to solve his own problems.”
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