Boys are far more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder than girls, and they face harsher punishments in school-especially boys of color.ĪPA’s new Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Boys and Men strive to recognize and address these problems in boys and men while remaining sensitive to the field’s androcentric past. They are 3.5 times more likely than women to die by suicide, and their life expectancy is 4.9 years shorter than women’s.
They’re the demographic group most at risk of being victimized by violent crime. Men commit 90 percent of homicides in the United States and represent 77 percent of homicide victims. Meanwhile, the 115th Congress, which began in 2017, was 81 percent male.īut something is amiss for men as well. According to a 2017 analysis by Fortune, in 16 of the top companies, 80 percent of all high-ranking executives were male. And men still dominate professionally and politically: As of 2018, 95.2 percent of chief operating officers at Fortune 500 companies were men. For decades, psychology focused on men (particularly white men), to the exclusion of all others. For the first time ever, APA is releasing guidelines to help psychologists work with men and boys.Īt first blush, this may seem unnecessary.
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