Christopher Reigeluth

Oregon Health & Science University | OHSU · Division of Clinical Psychology

As a normative and context-dependent social process, policing of masculinity (POM) differentially impacts adolescent boys and operates as a primary gender socialization mechanism as they navigate adolescence. POM can be understood as any action that serves to prevent or punish behavior perceived as insufficiently masculine based on contextually sit...

Decades of masculinity research have concluded that society places higher demands on males to adhere to norms for low emotional expression; yet, countless studies find that emotional expression is integral to well-being. Unfortunately, this contradiction places boys and men in a tenuous position as they must navigate a bombardment of societal messa...

Aplicaciones pragmáticas para el compromiso terapéutico con hombres marginados: una exploración interseccional de dos clientes hombres adultos emergentes afroamericanos Servicios de salud mental accesibles y de alta calidad, aunque integrales para la salud general y el bienestar, siguen siendo ignorados y subfinanciados por la sociedad y, especialm...

Many young men feel pressured to live up to the guy code— a set of unspoken rules about how to be “a man”—in order to fit in. But did you know that so-called “manly” stuff like denying your feelings or “toughing it out” can actually make you feel worse? So, how can teen boys crack the guy code and be the person they want to be? In The Masculinity W...

Despite historical shifts in some parts of the world indicating greater openness to more fluid and less restrictive notions of “manhood,” boys continue to experience significant pressures to conform to dominant masculine norms through policing of masculinity. The Policing of Masculinity Scale (POMS) was developed to measure this pervasive gender so...

Throughout the United States and around the world, boys are socialized to be men through a rigid set of prescriptive and proscriptive masculinity rules called the Guy Code. While not all boys adhere to the teachings of the Guy Code, such as be powerful and tough, hide vulnerable emotions, and be a player, they all are exposed through dominant mascu...

The present study investigates the importance of emotional disclosure and vulnerability in the production of hegemonic masculinities. Of particular interest is the role that silence and invisibility play in how men talk about recent stressful life events. One-on-one interviews with men who experienced a stressful life event in the past year illustr...

We consider the potential utility of the methods described by Eells (2010) and Edwards (2010) for guiding case conceptualization and treatment process in the area of men's mental health. As a relatively new field, men's mental health has been concerned with the clinical implications of understanding how masculine gender socialization influences the...