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Therapy with Boys
From: Cracking the Boy Code
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• Relationship is what powers therapy forward. Find a therapist with an instinct for relationship. This triumphs over theories, rules, and professional status.
• Activity-based therapy works well to engage younger boys. Older boys seek consequential conversation. It’s not reasonable to expect boys and young men to embrace hours of discussion around their bad habits. The best therapy moves toward something, rather than away from something.
• Emphasizing some aspects of agency — doing and accomplishing things — is more fundamental than insight or reflecting on emotions. It is the key to engagement.
Contributors
Adam Cox
Adam J. Cox Ph.D, is a clinical psychologist whose work includes thousands of hours interviewing children. His research includes a multi-year global research project, Locating Significance in the Lives of Boys, for the International Boys' Schools Coalition, during which he interviewed students and teachers in the US, UK, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, from a wide variety of social and educational backgrounds. A sought-after therapist and frequent speaker on the psychology of boys, he is author of the acclaimed books On Purpose Before Twenty, Boys of Few Words and No Mind Left Behind. Cox lives in Rhode Island and shares his wisdom in his newsletter Family Matters at DrAdamCox.com.
