Developing Positive Masculinity in Psychology Today Magazine

Encourage your boy to understand how he affects others—without starting a fight.

Encourage your boy to understand how he affects others—without starting a fight.

Loneliness is a silent epidemic that is impacting the mental health of a generation of young people.

Loneliness is on the rise for boys, but the good news is that parents can ease this pain by nurturing the “thread” of connection.

Boys contribute disproportionately to our behaviour crisis, but blaming them won’t fix it. Understanding the research can. 

A significant investment to foster healthy masculinities.

The concept of positive masculinity focuses on teaching boys and young men healthy ways of thinking and behaving as males.

By Prof Matt Englar-Carlson As a child of the 70’s, I had a sense that my boyhood was a slightly different world than my father’s had been. And now as the father of a teenager, I know that his boyhood is different than mine. Learning about masculinity can be a funny thing. It is in […]

Harvard Undergraduate Health Policy Review In this article, we highlight the importance of adopting a policy approach to address restrictive gender role norms for boys and young men and by taking a policy and systems lens, we acknowledge the structural nature of limiting frameworks of masculine self-expression. Abstract Rigid adherence to traditional masculine norms typified […]

What are the causes for men to not seek help regarding their health?

Prestigious Ilona Kickbusch award goes to paper on positive masculinity.

A review of divergent perspectives on positive masculinity Research into positive masculinity by Headmaster Ross Featherston, Dr Ray Swann, Kate Casey (Crowther Centre) and other educational experts has been recognised internationally, with an article on the school’s work in this space being published in the Health Promotion International Journal. Operationalising positive masculinity: a theoretical synthesis […]