Men and Intimacy: Implications for the Counseling Psychologist.

Autor/in	Scher, Murray
Titel	Men and Intimacy: Implications for the Counseling Psychologist.
Quelle	(1980), (10 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Competition; Congruence (Psychology); Counseling; Counselor Client Relationship; Disclosure; Interpersonal Competence; Interpersonal Relationship; Males; Role Conflict; Role Perception; Sex Role; Socialization; State of the Art Reviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wettkampf; Congruence; Psychology; Kongruenz; Psychologie; Counselling; Beratung; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Rollenkonflikt; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; Geschlechterrolle; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Entwicklungsstand
Abstract	Intimacy exists when there is an open sharing of feelings, thoughts, and activities. Most men, because of their sex role socialization, have difficulty in establishing intimate relationships with men or women. The socialized value of competition, along with the barriers of homophobia, aversion to openness, and lack of role models, are major obstables to intimacy faced by men. Men's difficulty in being intimate implies that counselors of men must establish intimacy in the therapeutic encounter in order for counseling to be effective. If the male client has difficulty with intimacy, the task of the counselor is magnified because many problems that men face are based on their inability to be intimate. Counselors should help men to resolve this significant issue during therapy and enrich their lives with intimacy. (Author/NRB)
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