My Networker Login   |    Women Treating Men - Page 3  From many
years of attention to men's language, attitudes, and needs, I've
developed a specific approach to working with male clients. With
a man, I introduce therapy as an educational experience,
offering verbal and written descriptions of "what to expect in
therapy." I use a variety of cognitive-behavioral techniques,
including giving weekly homework assignments and using
videotherapy and bibliotherapy. I find that structured
assignments and role-playing exercises help men see the therapy
process more as an educational experience and less as a
pathologically-oriented excavation of their psyches.  I often
rely on a sense of humor, down-to-earth language, and judicious
self-disclosure to level the playing field between myself and my
male clients. For example, I had a depressed male client a few
years back who thought medication was "only for weak people."
After trying every way I could think of to help him move out of
this stance, I ended up sharing with