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https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__vancouversun.com_opinion_columnists_douglas-2Dtodd-2Dboys-2Dand-2Dmen-2Ddisappearing-2Dfrom-2Dpsychology&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=78ihbXksZoeCNOa2SU61wLq0YR3vmKxcW3_J65j6DVU&s=ZnHWgWDpdHP4cuWZtcWT8k8WVxJ1_mtbkDrhOL1fDwg&e=
DOUGLAS TODD: BOYS AND MEN DISAPPEARING FROM PSYCHOLOGY
DOUGLAS TODD[1]
Updated: July 4, 2018
Males are disappearing from the field of North American psychology —
both as research subjects and as psychotherapists.
The evidence is overwhelming that psychological research is becoming
heavily focused on girls’ and women’s issues, and that males are
rapidly vanishing from psycho-therapeutic professions.
The consequences of these dual trajectories, say specialists, is
that the distinct emotional struggles of boys and men are largely
being sidelined and that many psychotherapists are lacking expertise
in dealing effectively with males’ psychological difficulties.
A revealing study led by the University of B.C.’s Robinder Bedi
found the vast majority of 293 research articles published over a
13-year period in the influential Canadian Journal of Counselling and
Psychotherapy centred on female-specific topics.
Research articles exclusively on female subjects out-numbered those
on male subjects by four to one, Bedi discovered. When his team
excluded a single special “men’s” edition of the psychotherapy journal
from their survey, the ratio of female- to male-oriented articles in
the journal soared to 15 to one.
“All of this is occurring despite … boys and men making up 34 per
cent of individuals participating in counselling and psychology,”
writes Bedi, an assistant professor of counselling psychology at UBC.
“It appears that much of our knowledge about counselling Canadians
has been based upon research samples composed predominantly of women
and has been somewhat uncritically generalized to working with men,”
write Bedi and co-authors Courtney Young, Jaleh Davari, Karen Springer
and Daniel Kane in a peer-reviewed paper titled A Content Analysis of
Gendered Research.
Their overview of contemporary psychotherapeutic research in Canada
dovetails with rising awareness across North America of a related
development: That women are becoming even more predominant in
counselling and psychology professions.
The American Psychological Association, which represents roughly
90,000 clinical psychologists, found women outnumber men by more than
two to one. And it’s quickly becoming more extreme: The ratio of
female psychologists to male psychologists who are 35 and under jumps
to nine to one[2].
“The gender gap in the psychology workforce has widened,” says a
report by the American Psychological Association. “This gender gap was
even wider for racial/ethnic minority groups … It is important to
understand both why a greater number of females have entered the
workforce and why fewer males have entered the workforce, and more
males have exited.”
The ever-widening chasm among younger psychologists is similar in
Canada and B.C. The spring edition of The Chronicle[3], published by
the B.C. College of Psychologists, included a chart showing the
province has roughly six registered female psychologists age 35 and
under for every one male psychologist of that same age group.
Links:
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[1] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__vancouversun.com_author_douglastodd2&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=78ihbXksZoeCNOa2SU61wLq0YR3vmKxcW3_J65j6DVU&s=nu3n_pNXSt0MyNbYInV2hzpbVDk4cCpzGkUzSPD_6rQ&e=
[2] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.apa.org_workforce_publications_13-2Ddemographics_index.aspx&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=78ihbXksZoeCNOa2SU61wLq0YR3vmKxcW3_J65j6DVU&s=hzfWxxQ_WJuO2TmIjLsA1YU3Gkblq3eF64HcyDPrwAs&e=
[3] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__collegeofpsychologists.bc.ca_docs_Chronicle-2520Spring-25202018.pdf&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=78ihbXksZoeCNOa2SU61wLq0YR3vmKxcW3_J65j6DVU&s=cOHY9VKV1Kfz-cqY6yO1lyet7TtHfZVqQkce5QzrHD0&e=
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