TAYLORMADE TRAINING AND CONSULTING Promoting wellbeing and facilitating effective suicide prevention & postvention through evidence-based practice and evaluation
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO REDUCE THE HIGH RATES OF DEPRESSION & SUICIDE IN MEN? It's time to take depression and suicide in men out of the too hard basket
Reducing suicide in men requires a co-ordinated community-wide response
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
An opportunity for a day of learning with internationally respected specialist on suicide in men, Barry Taylor
Auckland City workshop this Thursday
Register NOW
Sad Blokes: Men, Depression and Suicide Workshop
How does the way that men are raised affect their ability to deal with their depression or ability to ask for help?
How does culture, age, sexuality and ableness influence men's understanding of what it means to be a man?
What are key messages we need to convey to men that will contribute to positive mental wellbeing?
What is masked depression? How is sadness and depression commonly expressed in men? What is Sad Rage?
Who are the groups of men that are most at risk of suicide?
What are the different factors and characteristics we need to consider across the age span? What are the unique issues for young men, middle aged and older men?
What do you do when a man denies anything is wrong when clearly it is?
What do we know from the evidence that will really make a difference in supporting the depressed or suicidal man?
Reports of high profile men experiencing depression or having died by suicide are sadly becoming regular news stories. These stories represent only a small number of men who live daily with depression or have thoughts of killing themselves. Across most ethnic and age groupings men are over-represented in measures of poor mental health including suicide and depression. This is a serious challenge not only for the men but for their whānau, hapū, iwi, workplaces and communities.
Take the opportunity to hear from an internationally respected commentator and suicidologist BarryTaylor as he unpacks the varying responses by men to depression and suicide and how they make sense of, and deal with, their depression or suicidal distress. Based on 30 years’ experience of working with men who are depressed and suicidal and drawing on the latest international research findings, Barry offers suggestions on strength-based approaches that enhance men’s wellbeing and strategies that assist men to navigate through times of distress and crisis. Barry also offers his personal insights as a man who has lived with depression for many years.
Questioning some of the widely accepted views of why men are over represented in poor mental health outcomes, the workshop will use a social determinants framework which can be applied in community, support and clinical settings.
Participants will analyse the impact that the changes in society’s expectations of men, their traditional roles and notions of masculinity over the past 50 years has had on men's mental wellbeing. The workshop will provide a rationale for why the intersection of gender, ethnicity, age and sexuality must be considered in any mental wellbeing program, risk assessment or therapeutic and support intervention with men.
Explore how social, cultural and psychological factors contribute to depression and suicide in men
Update your knowledge about community strategies that have been shown to be effective in improving the wellbeing of men
Understand more how men make sense and deal with their depression or suicidality
Enhance your skills to support a depressed or suicidal man
Identitfy opportunities for local community action to respond to depression and suicide in men
With men being reluctant users of health or mental health services, research shows that the opportunities to engage with depressed or suicidal men is more likely in non-health settings. Having 'first point call' workers who are confident and competent in being able to respond in a helpful supportive and being able to refer to other services if necessary has proven to be highly effective. Previous workshops have had representatives from the following sectors and all agreed that the Sad Blokes workshop was relevant and helpful in their work.
Workplaces
Educational and training organisations
School counsellors, deans, pastoral care
Churches
Sporting clubs
Support services - e.g.Financial & budgeting services
Welfare agencies
Citizen Advice Bureaus
Iwi support services
Gambling support services
Relationship counselling
Domestic violence support
Police, Corrections, Juvenile Justice
Frontline Government Services - e.g. WINZ
Victim Support
Youth Workers
Aged Care Workers
Rural support agencies
Loss and Grief services - especially bereaved by suicide
Workshop Presenter: Barry Taylor
Barry has recently returned to New Zealand having worked for thirty years in suicide prevention and postvention at the local, national and international levels. He led the first national response to youth suicide in New Zealand in the late 1980's.
Known for his lecturing and commentary on the risk and protective factors that impact on wellbeing and suicidal risk, he has led and evaluated a diverse range of community and national suicide prevention and postvention programs, written guidelines and policies and sat on numerous government advisory committees. With his long-term interest in gendered responses to suicide and mental illness, he brings a wealth of knowledge and passion for promoting wellbeing in men and finding solutions to reduce the suicide rates in men.
A Health Sociologist and Public Health practitioner, Barry has a long term interest in the social and cultural factors that contribute to wellbeing, and the impact that social exclusion has on mental health along with the role of human rights in suicide prevention.
In 2016 he was awarded the NSW Mental Health Commissioner's Community Champion Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to mental wellbeing and suicide prevention.
Feedback from other workshop participants:
The best and most informative workshop I have attended in 27 years of mental health nursing
Community Mental Health Nurse
This workshop should be compulsory for anyone working with men
Male Family Violence Worker
It was as if Barry was talking about every young man I see at school
School Counsellor
I have greater insight about depressed and suicidal men and learnt some useful ideas on how to work with the men in my community
Community Worker
Thanks for being so inclusive of older men. They are so often forgotten
Aged Care Worker
I appreciated how inclusive the presenter was of different cultures and his analysis of how culture influences what it means to be a man
Refugee Health Worker
Workshop Details:
Registration Fees
Earlybird* Registration Fee: $110 + GST Full Registration Fee $160 + GST Registration fee includes handouts, morning & afternoon teas, lunch * Check each location for the closing date of Earlybird registration fee
Group Registration Bonus: Register five people from the same organisation at the same time and get 1 additional registration free. Register ten or more people at the same time and get 2 additional registrations free.
Workshop Dates for Auckland Time: 9.00am - 4.30pm (Click on the date for workshop venue and to register)
