tailieunhanh - DYING TO BE MEN: Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys

Twenty years ago, when I began researching and writing about men’s health at the University of California at Berkeley, men in the United States were dying more than 7 years younger than women. It was a time when “men’s health” was really nothing more than an oxymoron. The gender gap in longevity, however, was not new; it had been steadily widening since 1920, when women and men in the United States lived lives that were equal in length. But when I conducted training sessions about improving men’s health, physicians and other health professionals were consistently shocked to learn of this gap in the life spans of women and men,. | ROUTLEDGE SERIES ON Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys Men DYING TO BE MEN Psychosocial Environmental and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys Will Courtenay DYING TO BE MEN The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men SERIES EDITOR Mark S. Kiselica The College of New Jersey ADVISORY BOARD Deryl Bailey David Lisak University of Georgia University of Massachusetts - Boston Chris Blazina William M. Liu Tennessee State University University of Iowa J. Manuel Casas James O Neil University of California - University of Connecticut Santa Barbara Matt Englar-Carlson Steve Wester California State University - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Fullerton Ann Fischer Southern Illinois University - Carbondale VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES Volume 1 Counseling Troubled Boys A Guidebook for Professionals Mark S. Kiselica Matt Englar-Carlson and Arthur M. Horne editors Volume 2 BAM Boys Advocacy and Mentoring A Leader s Guide to Facilitating Strengths-Based Groups for Boys - Helping Boys Make Better Contact by Making Better Contact with Them Peter Motorola Howard Hiton and Stephen Grant Volume 3 Counseling Fathers Chen Z. Oren and Dora Chase Oren editors Volume 4 Counseling Boys and Men with ADHD George Kapalka Volume 5 Culturally Responsive Counseling with Asian American Men William M. Liu Derek Kenji Iwamoto and Mark H. Chae .