THE CENTER FOR MEN AT MCLEAN HOSPITAL is designed to help men identify and master the stresses of work, family and intimate relationships, as well as to cope throughout their lives with emotional or physical health challenges. Through a variety of settings--individual, group, couples and family therapy, as well as workshops and consultations--the center offers comprehensive services for men and adolescents and the important people in their lives.

Services & Treatment
Recognizing that men traditionally have attempted to cope with stress on their own and that they often do not benefit from conventional psychotherapy approaches, the center offers its clients a variety of services and treatment options, each of them acknowledging and building upon men's individual strengths, special values and unique style of problem-solving.

Services include the following:

• lectures and workshops, focusing on such topics as relationships, executive stress, fathering, sports, marriage, and balancing work and family;
• psychoeducational groups, examining such subjects as coping with anger, fathering and relationships with women;
• individual, group, couples and family therapy;
• private consultations for individuals or couples;
• integration with specialized men's health care.

Supported by a network of health-care specialists, The Center for Men also offers programs designed specifically for private businesses, organizations and individual executives. Activities to meet these specific needs may include any of the following:

• stress-management workshops;
• sessions centered on such issues as effective leadership, power, team-building, professional burnout, gender diversity and sexual harassment;
• executive coaching;
• individual and organizational consultation, for those in both the private and public sectors.

Staff
Directed by William S. Pollack, Ph.D., The Center for Men is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurse clinicians, researchers, educators and organizational consultants.

About the Center
The Center for Men is dedicated to enhancing knowledge of men's life experiences, physical and mental health issues. In advancing information in this area, the center has joined with other academic and health-care institutions to promote research on topics that include: male/female relationships, boys' development, the struggles of adolescence, men's depression, men in the workplace, work/family balance, fathering, men and divorce, grief, single parenting, sexuality and men with medical and/or stress-based problems.

About McLean Hospital
A major teaching facility of Harvard Medical School, McLean offers a full continuum of health and mental health care. It is a world leader in patient care, psychiatric research and the training of generations of mental health-care providers.

McLean Hospital is a recognized leader in out-comes measurement and has developed widely used methods for measuring the effectiveness of care. Client satisfaction is of primary inportance to McLean Hospital staff.

For Referrals & Information
For further information or for prompt referral to the Center for Men at McLean, call 1-800-333-0338 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most insurance plans are accepted.