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Live Webinar

2-Day Men's Mental Health Specialist Training

Strategies to Build Alliances, Motivation & Inspire Change with Male Clients

Speaker:
Jett Stone, PhD
Duration:
Two Full Days
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC150518
Brochure Code:
PWZ95071
Media Type:
Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar

Dates
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Normal Price:      $599.99 - Now:  $99.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

  • Specialize in men’s mental health, backed by the latest science
  • Use ACT, Motivational Interviewing & other gender-sensitive tools
  • Address unique risks like suicide, isolation, and shame appropriately

 

Men walk into therapy carrying layers of unspoken struggles - the pressure to “be strong,” the stigma of asking for help, confusion around their roles, and the toll that emotional suppression takes on relationships, work, and identity.

… and, when the topics turn to fatherhood, sexual functioning, or the impact of testosterone and aging, many therapists feel they lack the tools to respond with expertise.

Empathy alone isn’t enough. These moments call for clear answers, strategies that work, and a treatment approach that’s grounded in what men actually experience.

That’s why Dr. Jett Stone has dedicated his career to creating therapy for men that works. He’s been featured on CNN, in The New York Times, and The Guardian and more, and his book Quiet Your Mind: A Men’s Guide is an Amazon Bestseller. In this 2-day live online webinar, Dr. Stone will equip you with the skills to specialize in men’s mental health, backed by the latest research and proven interventions.

Dr. Stone will guide you through powerful, transformative techniques to:

  • Frame therapy in ways that resonate with men to reduce drop-out rates & build buy-in
  • Spot how common diagnoses present differently, from anxiety to trauma and body dysmorphia
  • Use Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and other evidence-based tools to collaboratively plan treatment through a gendered lens
  • Engage men who are withdrawn, inexpressive, or intensely angry
  • Address unique suicide risks in men, including shame, isolation, and the “burden” narrative

And so much more, this training gives you a comprehensive foundation – leave with a renewed sense of confidence in your ability to work with men in ways that go beyond the limits of standard care

… and take your career further too!

Register now!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 12.5 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 12.5 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 12.5 continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 760 continuing education minutes as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 


Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2023 - January 27, 2026. Social workers completing this course receive 12.5 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous Distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


US National Boards - Social Workers - National NASW

This live remote program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval #886759332-4922) for 12.5 continuing education contact hours in Clinical Social Work.


US National Boards - Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists – ANCC

PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses in full attendance will earn 12.5 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.



Speaker

Jett Stone, PhD's Profile

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Jett Stone, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and leading voice in men’s mental health, helping men develop emotional depth, resilience, and connection. He is the author of Quiet Your Mind: A Men’s Guide and the voice behind the blog Souls of Men, exploring the inner lives of men. Dr. Stone earned degrees from the University of Michigan (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.S., M.A.) before completing his PhD in clinical psychology at Adelphi University, followed by clinical training at the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Hospital, focusing on PTSD in combat veterans. He is the founder of a psychotherapy practice in Connecticut, where he works with individuals and couples and supervises trainees. He frequently shares his expertise on masculinity and fatherhood through podcasts and media, including The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, and Fortune. Dr. Stone is also a founding contributor to the US launch of the Men’s Therapy Hub, a new global platform advancing access to care for men and training for therapists working with male clients. He provides workshops and clinical trainings on effective, culturally attune strategies for engaging male clients – particularly those who, in previous generations, would not have sought therapy – equipping therapists to build motivation, foster emotional insight, and create lasting change.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jett Stone maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Work Haven. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jett Stone is an expert contributor with Psychology Today and is an advisory board member with Fathering Together.

 


Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


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Objectives

  1. Identify key issues affecting men’s mental health, including stigma, emotional suppression, self-reliance, and high dropout rates. 
  2. Examine how traditional masculine ideologies and ideas about “toxic masculinity” shape men’s mental health. 
  3. Develop a clear way to introduce therapy that resonates with men to build rapport. 
  4. Choose gender-responsive therapeutic techniques to tailor language, treatment style, and interventions to meet men where they are. 
  5. Develop strategies to navigate withdraw, avoidance, and anger without losing the working relationship. 
  6. Determine readiness for therapy and create realistic goals based on motivational interviewing stages of change. 
  7. Identify common misconceptions about therapy and provide a transparent roadmap of the therapy process. 
  8. Utilize ACT and EFT to work with anger, emotional withdraw, emotional restriction, and suicidal ideation. 
  9. Examine the psychological undercurrents of modern challenges, including isolation, video game immersion, and compulsive pornography use. 
  10. Utilize reflective exercises, role plays, and case studies to bridge theory and real-world practice. 
  11. Determine assessment and intervention techniques for men’s specific presentations of anxiety, depression, and trauma. 
  12. Choose strategies for crisis intervention and suicidality specific to men.

Outline

What Men Need in Therapy

  • How traditional psychotherapy underserves men
  • Break “The Man Box” and explore the Masculine Mystique
  • From gender roles to gender role strain
  • Drop-out rates, “triangulations,” stigmas, and suicide risks
  • How men view help-seeking
  • Toward a positive masculinity framework
  • Ethics, risks, limitations
  • Exercises: Man Box Defusion & Self-As-Context, “Competency One” Sentence Completion

Treatment Planning Through a Gendered Lens Using Stages of Change and ACT

  • Motivational assessment using the stages of change model
  • ACT Primer
  • Honor strengths with ACT’s “creative hopelessness”
  • Balance traditional masculinity using functional analysis
  • Recognize when masculinity is healthy vs. immature/destructive/restrictive
  • Diverse masculinities in America
  • Exercises: Case Study, Design a treatment plan

Gender-Responsive Techniques & Practical Strategies That Cut Across Modalities

  • Harness the working alliance to go deeper
  • Make therapy user-friendly for diverse masculinities
  • Why “How does that make you feel?” won’t land
  • “Benevolent Confrontation”
  • Interventions when therapy feels “alien”
  • Help men identify feelings using the Mood Meter and Ruler Method
  • Target the body to help men feel deeper
  • Exercise: Deepening questions to foster “creative hopelessness” with patients in the pre-contemplative and contemplative stages of change in beginning sessions

Expect and Navigate Inexpressiveness

  • What doesn’t work when managing blocks/avoidance
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) primer
  • How to engage men who withdraw
  • The benefits of distance and the cost of disengagement
  • Paint a vision that encourages future investment
  • Use EFT’s RAVES Technique
  • Gary Brooks’ Ten Provocative Thought Questions
  • Role Play: RAVES, Case Vignette: Dan – The Officer Who Can’t Cuddle

Expect and Navigate Intensity and Anger

  • Why men need to know you can handle their intensity
  • The evolutionary & psychological role of anger
  • Match the intensity of men and maintain your boundaries
  • Understand your countertransference
  • Identify emotions, underlying anger, reappraisal, and mindfulness
  • Role Play: Handling Anger in Session, Case Vignette: Alan – When Anger Is Overwhelming

Masculinity, Substance Use, and Suicidality

  • Unique factors in suicide risks with men
  • The silent suffering and emotional isolation
  • Shame & the “Burden” narrative: how “neediness” fuels despair
  • Strategies for engaging suicidal clients
  • Address thwarted belongingness
  • Crisis planning for men
  • Ethics, risks, limitations
  • Case Vignette: “Chen”

Reconnect the Modern Young Man: Video Games, Porn & Solitude

  • The digital lives of young men
  • Small steps to behavioral activation
  • Gaming as connection, escape, and mastery
  • Pornography & emotional disconnection
  • Meeting compulsions with curiosity, not shame
  • Solitude vs. loneliness
  • Strategies to construct a bridge through mens’ interests
  • Case Vignette: Leo – The Client Who Lives Online and discussion

Recognize Diagnostic Presentations

  • Anxiety disorders: Low perceived control, somatic symptoms, rumination
  • Depressive disorders: More in depth externalizing behaviors
  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Muscle dysmorphia, obsessive exercise, dietary habits, and hair loss
  • Trauma and stressor-related disorders: Identify emotional numbing, aggression, hypervigilance, avoidance, and substance misuse
  • Substance use disorders: problematic alcohol use and masculinity expectations

Support Engaged Fatherhood

  • The benefits of involved fatherhood
  • Paternal mental health challenges, risks and interventions
  • Encourage shared household labor and parenting responsibilities
  • Fathers’ unique impact on resilience, EQ, empathy, and self-regulation
  • The future of fathering and the workplace

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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