Department of Psychiatry and.
J Ment Health. 2014 Apr;23(2):83-7. doi: 10.3109/09638237.2013.869573. Epub 2014 Jan 16.
The assumption that men dislike psychotherapy has been espoused by clinicians, health care administrators, and those in the popular media. Whether this assumption holds true among help-seeking men has not been tested.
Treatment preferences of men attending outpatient psychiatric clinics were investigated to assess their willingness to engage in psychotherapy.
In three different studies (total N = 407; 170 men), male and female outpatients completed various self-report measures that assessed their treatment preferences, as well as psychiatric symptoms.
Across all three studies, men indicated a preference for psychotherapy over medication or no treatment/wait and see; a preference pattern that did not differ significantly from that of women. The only between-sex difference to emerge regarding preferences was in study 2; a greater proportion of men preferred individual therapy over group therapy compared to women. There were no between-sex differences with regard to symptoms.
Contrary to assumptions that portray men, generally, as unwilling or uninterested to engage in psychotherapy, men that have sought mental health services appear to prefer psychotherapy as their intervention of choice to address their mental health problems.
临床医生、医疗保健管理人员和大众媒体都支持这样一种假设，即男性不喜欢心理治疗。尚未验证寻求帮助的男性是否持有这种假设。
调查参加门诊精神科诊所的男性的治疗偏好，以评估他们接受心理治疗的意愿。
在三项不同的研究中（共 407 名；170 名男性），男性和女性门诊患者完成了各种自我报告的措施，评估了他们的治疗偏好以及精神症状。
在所有三项研究中，男性表示他们更喜欢心理治疗而不是药物治疗或不治疗/观望；这种偏好模式与女性没有显著差异。关于偏好唯一出现的性别差异是在研究 2 中；与女性相比，更多的男性更喜欢个体治疗而不是团体治疗。在症状方面没有性别差异。
与普遍认为男性一般不愿意或不感兴趣接受心理治疗的假设相反，寻求心理健康服务的男性似乎更愿意将心理治疗作为解决其心理健康问题的首选干预措施。
