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Healthy Young Men




     

Aims

  • To provide health and other professionals with the underpinning knowledge and skills to be able to develop and implement creative and innovative practice when working with young men.
  • By the end of the workshop participants will be able to consider themes of engagement and service development and identify at least three ways in which professionals can influence men’s health incorporating a holistic approach.
  

Learning Outcomes

1.Review the key documents and evidence that endorses working with boys and young men.

2. Investigate key theories which support practice including gender, stereotyping and masculinity role theory.

3. Define ways in which boys and young men can build self esteem and negotiation skills in order to resist peer pressure (interlinking safer sex practices, drug and alcohol use and teenage pregnancy).

4. Enable boys and young men to explore relationships including reference to fatherhood.

5. Explore the issues surrounding boys and young men’s health incorporating a holistic approach including emotional and personal well-being together with diversity, cultural and sexual orientation.

6. Empower boys and young men to access service provisions.






 

Course Content

The HYM training programme will explicitly link with the intended learning outcomes detailed above. All presentations and group exercises will be included within the delegate packs and will aim to inspire ideas for delegate’s own professional practice leading to service development to meet the needs of boys and young men.

  • Provide pre course material for delegates to review as background reading prior to attending the session outlining relevant key documents (Learning Outcome 1).
  • Provide a Power Point presentation to examine the key data (Learning Outcome 2).
  • Undertake a beliefs systems exercise as a group activity (Learning Outcome 2).
  • Presentation and discussion of case scenarios relating to peer pressure, self esteem and the media (Learning Outcome 3).
  • Workshops to critically evaluate the following socio-economic aspects explicitly interlinking practice including relationship patterns, the role of the woman, employment, sexual expectation and media (Learning Outcome 3).
  • Review visual image resource which will encourage discussion around attitudes and beliefs about masculinity and homophobia, the media, sex and language, relationships with friends and family and fatherhood (Learning Outcome 4).
  • Workshops to explore different aspects of men’s health in a holistic manner for example physical, psychological, social (Learning Outcome 5)
  • Culture and Diversity Exercise (Learning Outcome 5)
  • Undertake mind mapping exercise to identify three ways in which professionals can develop their own professional practice and encourage boys and young men to access services (Learning Outcome 6)
     
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