The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health

Foreword; Matt Englar-Carlson.- Section 1: THEORY.- Part 1: Developmental Perspective.-  1 From Fetuses to Boys to Men: the impact of testosterone on male lifespan development; John Barry, Becci Owens.- 2 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): a case study and exploration of causes and interventions; Bijal Chheda-Varma.- 3 Autism in Boys & Girls, Women and Men throughout the Lifespan; Patricia van Wijngaarden-Cremers.- 4 The Challenges for Boys and Men in 21st Century Education; Gijsbert Stoet.- 5 Deconstructing Dad; Rob Hadley.- 6 Impact of Father Absence on Child Mental Health: Three Possible Outcomes; Andrew Briggs.- Section 1, Part 2 Cultural, Evolutionary, and Social Perspectives.- 7 The Gender Distortion Matrix; Martin Seager, John Barry.- 8 Positive Masculinity: Including Masculinity as a Valued Aspect of Humanity; Martin Seager, John Barry.- 9 Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: A Challenge to the Gendered Paradigm;  Nicola Graham-Kevan, Deborah Powney.- 10 Men's Health and Cancer - the case of prostate cancer; Ken Gannon.- 11 May the Force of Gender Be With You: Identity, Identification and "Own-Gender Bias"; Nathan Hook.- 12 From Hegemonic to Responsive Masculinity: the transformative power of the provider role; Belinda Brown.- 13 Games People Play: The collapse of "masculinities" and the rise of masculinity as spectacle; Damien Ridge.- 14 From Stereotypes to Archetypes: An evolutionary perspective on male help-seeking and suicide; Martin Seager.- 15 The Gaze: The Male need to Look vs the Female need to be seen - An Evolutionary Perspective; Jennie Cummings-Knight.- 16 We are Warriors: The Psychology of Men at War; Rod Eldridge, Ed Fraser.- Section 2: PRACTICE.- Part 1 Working with children and adolescents.- 17 Working with Adolescent Males: Special Consideration from an Existential Perspective; Miles Groth.- 18 Angry Young Men: Interpersonal Formulation of Anger to Effect Change; Peter Cairns, Lawrence Howells.- 19 Improving

John Barry is a chartered psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Honorary Lecturer in Psychology at University College London, UK. He is co-founder of the Male Psychology Network, and the Male Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. Roger Kingerlee is a consultant clinical psychologist and EMDR consultant at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Kingerlee specialises in male and veteran psychologies and complex trauma. He is co-writer of the Veterans' Stabilisation Programme with The Walnut Tree Project, and a member of the Male Psychology Network.Martin Seager is a consultant clinical psychologist with the UK charity Change, Grow, Live. He spent over 30 years as a senior clinician, supervisor and manager in the NHS. He is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster and activist in the mental health field and co-founder of the Male Psychology Network, and the Male Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society.Luke Sullivan is a clinical psychologist. He is the founder of Men's Minds Matter, and also works for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, specialising in psychological crisis interventions for people at risk of suicide. He is a committee member of the National Suicide Prevention Alliance and co-founder of the BPS Male Psychology Section.