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"This man is just not cooperating and just doesn't want to be in therapy". A doctoral student working with a 26 year old white man in counseling was frustrated at her client to reveal what she regarded to be his true feelings. She believed that he was resistant to therapy because of his reticence to show emotions. However, her supervisor, someone trained in the psychology of men, explained to her the difficulty some men have in expressing emotions: that, in fact, some men are unaware of their emotional states. Working with the supervisor, the trainee focused part of the therapy on helping the client identify and normalize his emotions and providing some psychoeducation on the effects of his masculine socialization process. This critical incident could be repeated in psychology training programs around the country. As men come to therapy, the issue for many psychologists becomes How do psychologists become competent to work with men? This question may seem paradoxical given the sentiment that most if not all of psychology is premised on men's, especially white men's, worldviews and experiences( Sue, Arrendondo, & McDavid, 1992; Sue & Sue, 2003). But several authors have suggested that working with men in therapy is a clinical competency and just as complex and difficult as working with women and other multicultural communities( Addis & Mahalik, 2003; Liu, 2005)
How well have the researchers established the importance of the problem area? Explain
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