Working With Veterans with Gary R. Brooks, PhD Part of the Men and Masculinity APA Psychotherapy Video Series LIST PRICE: $99.95 MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $69.95 ITEM #: 4310842 ISBN: 1-4338-0324-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-4338-0324-6 RUNNING TIME: Over 100 minutes FORMAT: DVD [Closed Captioned]

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In Working With Veterans, Dr. Gary R. Brooks demonstrates his integrative approach to working with men who have served in the military. In general, male culture holds values contrary to psychotherapeutic goals and methods, including a resistance to asking for help and an aversion to vulnerability and intimacy. These traits are often higher among those who have served in the military, making therapy with this population challenging. Dr. Brooks takes this into account and modifies therapy to make it more compatible with men's ways of thinking and doing.

In this session, Dr. Brooks works with a 39-year-old African American male veteran who is considering reenlisting. Together they explore the client's experiences and cognitions that may have formed his sense of self and that may also contribute to this seemingly rash decision.

Psychotherapy with former soldiers requires that therapists have deep understanding of the phenomenology of veterans, as well as appreciation of the special interventions that have been developed to meet their unique needs. In addition, therapeutic interventions with veterans are most effective when these interventions are enriched by recognition of the new insights of "men and masculinity" research.

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Gary R. Brooks, PhD, is currently a professor in psychology and neuroscience at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, after 29 years as a psychologist with the Central Texas VA Health Care System. Dr. Brooks has written extensively about men and masculinity and its application to psychotherapy. His most recent books include A New Psychotherapy for Traditional Men and The New Handbook of Psychotherapy and Counseling for Men. He previously authored The Centerfold Syndrome and coauthored Bridging Separate Gender Worlds. He was a cofounder and second president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (Division 51 of the American Psychological Association). He was selected Texas Psychologist of the Year in 1996.

• Addis, M. E., & Mahalik, J. R. (2003). Men, masculinity, and the contexts of help seeking.American Psychologist, 58, 5–14.
• Brooks, G. R. (1998). A new psychotherapy for traditional men. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
• Brooks, G. R., & G. E. Good (Eds.). The new handbook of psychotherapy and counseling with men. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
• Brooks, G. R. (2005). Counseling and psychotherapy for male military veterans. In G. E. Good & G. R. Brooks (Eds.). The new handbook of psychotherapy and counseling with men, revised edition (pp. 206–225). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
• Courtenay, W. H. (2000). Engendering health: A social constructionist examination of men's health beliefs and behaviors. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 1, 4–15.
• Levant, R. F., & Brooks, G. R. (Eds.). (1997). Men & Sex: New psychological perspectives. New York: Wiley.
• Pleck, J. H. (1995). The gender role strain paradigm: An update. In R. F. Levant & W. S. Pollack (Eds.), A new psychology of men (pp. 11–32). New York: Basic Books.
• Real, T. (1997). I don't want to talk about it: Overcoming the secret legacy of male depression. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Sue, D. W., & Sue, D. (2003). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice. New York: Wiley.

APA Videos

• Psychotherapy With Men
  Mark A. Stevens
• Working With African American Clients
  Thomas A. Parham
• Working With Men Survivors of Trauma and Abuse
  Laura S. Brown

APA Books

• Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice, Second Edition: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy
  Pamela A. Hays
• Bridging Separate Gender Worlds: Why Men and Women Clash and How Therapists Can Bring Them Together
  Carol L. Philpot, Gary R. Brooks, Don-David Lusterman, and Roberta L. Nutt
• Deepening Psychotherapy With Men
  Fredric E. Rabinowitz and Sam V. Cochran
• Dialogues on Difference: Studies of Diversity in the Therapeutic Relationship
  Edited by J. Christopher Muran
• In the Room With Men: A Casebook of Therapeutic Change
  Edited by Matt Englar-Carlson and Mark A. Stevens

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