AASW Webinar Recording | Levels of Engagement When Working with Male Clients in a Clinical Setting

Capability Levels: Evolving; Established

Is your client engaged within a visitor, a complainant, or a customer type relationship?

Practitioners have been known to suggest that some male clients are more difficult to work with. Although there has been a noticeable increase in men presenting for support, often for the first time in their lives, challenges often lie in recognising what level of engagement men are seeking and how practitioners can appropriately respond, with a potential consequence of client disengagement.

The various levels of therapeutic engagement relationships (visitor - not identifying a problem or desiring change; complainant - identifying a problem but external to self; and customer - identifying a problem and a desire to change) have been revised in similar formats over the years. This webinar will reexamine and compare these ideas, exploring concrete and practical ways of working with male clients and moving into deeper levels of engagement methods. Clinical practice examples will be provided throughout, including applicable strategies and processes for attendees to consider within their own practice.

Who should register? Suitable for emerging, evolving and established practitioners working in a therapeutic setting or within goal-based client work.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Understand the various types of therapeutic engagement while working with male clients
• Evaluating types of therapeutic engagement methods male clients are seeking
• To develop context for male clients to move into deeper levels of therapeutic engagement
• To Apply practical approaches working within clients’ current engagement level, as well as moving to deeper levels of engagement.

AASW Credentials: Mental Health; Clinical