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Entries in Male-Friendly Services (62)

Tuesday
Sep252007

Men's Advisory Network (M.A.N.)

This Western Australian organisation has many items of interest to men's health locally, nationally and internationally. They also publish a newsletter.

M.A.N.

Friday
Sep022005

The Three in One Men's Shed Evaluation Approach

A discussion of this evaluation approach - and evaluation more generally - from Dave Fildes in Wollongong.

Thursday
Jul072005

A selected list of counselling, fathering and anger management services for men (Sydney)

Sunday
Jan022005

Working with men using a non-deficit model

The following four articles provide information (both practical and theoretical) about working with men, particularly fathers, using a non-deficit model. Andrew King, who is the UnitingCare Burnside Training Coordinator based in NSW is the main author along with Steve Sweeney, a facilitator of UnitingCare Burnside groups in Western Sydney, and Ross Fletcher, the UnitingCare Burnside Program Worker at Fathers' Support Service in Sydney.

pdf Checklist for organisations working with men
pdf Developing the practice of working with men in family relationships: future directions for practice
pdf Engaging fathers in group work - Creating cooperative environments
pdf Working with fathers - The non-deficit perspective

Wednesday
Jan082003

Men mostly 'forgotten' in research

Social work literature is biased against heterosexual males, leading to "unfair and untrue" stereotypes about men and hampering social workers' ability to counsel men, an Alabama professor has concluded after reviewing articles in two social work journals from the last decade.

Out of hundreds of articles, book reviews and published ads, only "a fraction - about 25" were about men, Jordan I. Kosberg wrote in an article titled "Heterosexual Males: A Group Forgotten by the Profession of Social Work."