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Macupathy: A New Paradigm In Understanding and Treating the Health and Wellness Needs of Boys and Men

Mascupathy: A New Paradigm for Understanding and Treating the Health and Wellness Needs of Men and Boys

This is a FREE training event. 

Start: April 5, 2018 @ 9:00 am

End: April 5, 2018 @ 4:00 pm

Location: Oakland, CA

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Course Overview:  Conventional approaches to working with men are grounded in the concept that mental illnesses like anxiety and depression lead to poor relational skills, as well as inadequate self-concepts and dangerous tendencies toward externalization.  Our work treating men has suggested that this paradigm misses critical, gender-based components of socialization, which has resulted in unsuccessful therapy for men who seek counseling to address inadequate relational skills and emotional intelligence.  

This workshop will explore the development of mascupathy as a more effective diagnostic paradigm in which we provide men with the tools necessary to create healthy self esteem, build meaningful relationships and emotional literacy, and adequately address problems like domestic violence, assaultive behaviors, substance abuse, and the overall cycle of perpetration and victimization.

Presenter: Randy Flood, MA, LLP is the co-founder and director of the Institute for the Prevention and Treatment of Mascupathy (IPTM), a culmination of over a 25-year career creating and developing specialized clinical services that address men's issues, including domestic violence, fathering, and emotional and relational intelligences.  He is the co-founder and director of the Men's Resource Center of West Michigan in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  With Charlie Donaldson, Flood wrote Mascupathy: Understanding and Healing the Malaise of American Manhood (IPTM, 2014) and Stop Hurting the Woman You Love: Breaking the Cycle of Abusive Behavior (Hazelden, 2006).  Randy has conducted numerous trainings for mental health practitioners on working with men in counseling.  He has presented at the American Men's Studies Association (AMSA) National Conference and at the Interdisciplinary Conference at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England.  His expertise on men's issues has led to many interviews with both national and international outlets, such as the Chicago Tribune and Minnesota's Star Tribune, as well as Voice of America radio, Australia's ABC Triple Hack Radio, Man-Rules podcast, and Saskatchewan, Canada's The Rock 98.5.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Explain how the perpetration-victimization process is rooted in toxic masculinity.
  • Demonstrate how failing to address toxic male socialization as the underlying cause for inappropriate externalization behaviors fails to effectively help boys and men caught up in the cycle.
  • Present the features and diagnostic categories of mascupathy and toxic masculinity.
  • Describe effective treatment strategies to promote engagement, reduction of externalizing behaviors, and personal development.

Agenda

  • 8:30am – 9:00am / Check-in and Registration
  • 9:00am – 9:30am / Brief history of the development of mascupathy as a paradigm for working with men
  • 9:30am – 10:30am / The legacy of toxic male socialization and its impact on healthy human development
  • 10:30am – 10:45am / Break
  • 10:45am – 11:00am / The externalization cycle and how male perpetration and victimization is perpetuated
  • 11:00am – 12:00pm / Five debilitating traits of mascupathy
  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm / Lunch
  • 1:00pm – 1:45pm / Diagnostic categories of mascupathy
  • 1:45pm – 2:30pm / Treatment strategies focusing on the benefits of group therapy
  • 2:30pm – 2:45pm / Break
  • 2:45pm – 3:30pm / Raising boys into healthy and wholehearted masculinities
  • 3:30pm – 4:00pm / Q&A and Wrap-up

This training is FREE OF CHARGE. Participants are responsible for travel, lodging and all meal expenses. Lunch is NOT provided.

Continuing Education:  If you are interested in Continuing Education please apply and pay for credit at the training. Cash, card, and check payments.

  • Course meets qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, $45, Provider #128510. The Center for Innovation and Resource, Inc. (CIR) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs and LCSWs. CIR maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

All attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance. Participants may apply for continuing education credits (CEUs) at the event. Certificates for CEUs will be mailed to participants within two weeks following the event.

For more information, questions, or grievances, please contact Emma Nichols at emma.nichols@cirinc.org or 707-992-0537.

Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations to participate in this training should also contact Emma Nichols. Requests must be received by March 23, 2018.

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