Terry Real is the author of Working with Difficult Men: How to engage, understand, and transform male clients.

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Men have been in a state of transition, confusion, reactivity, and trouble at no other time in history. Many men make a mess of their relationships despite being good hearted. We can help, but not before rethinking some of the sacred cows of therapeutic practice. Men need action and leadership from us, challenging them while still loving the little boy inside them and offering guidance and tools to their inner grown up.

The educational objectives are listed.

1. Describe the best part of the man, his “functional adult,” into an alliance with you.
2. Utilize judicious self-disclosure to help diminish shame while confronting men’s difficult behaviors and traits.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the current resurgence of patriarchy to an invitation to move beyond it and reclaim passionate connections to self and others.
4. Discuss male clients to a therapeutically meaningful deconstruction and reconfiguration of what it means to be “a man.”

Session may be edited to preserve confidentiality.