APA Division 51 Webinar
Breaking the Silence
Masculinity as a Barrier to Treatment in Psychotic-Spectrum Illness
About this webinar
Psychosis, seen through a male gender-sensitive lens
Few conversations about psychosis ask how masculinity shapes the way men experience it, or whether they stay engaged in care. This webinar does exactly that, focusing on young men with early psychosis and practical, Motivational Interviewing–based ways clinicians can respond.
Identify at least two masculine norms that interfere with treatment engagement among young men with early psychosis.
Learn a Motivational Interviewing–based strategy for addressing each of those norms.
The speakers
A clinician-scientist and a rising scholar
Speaker
Brent Crandal, PhD
Brent is a clinical psychologist and implementation scientist, an expert in treating people with psychosis, and a friend and colleague of facilitator Dr. Dan Singley. His work focuses on treatment engagement. He treats young people with early psychosis at UC San Diego Health, developed the MEET Intervention (Motivational Enhancement for Engagement in Treatment), and is Scientific Advisor with the Chadwick Center at Rady Children's Hospital. He also wrote a children's book, and it's actually pretty good.
Speaker
Nathan Mann, MPS
Mirror Initiative Scholarship RecipientNathan is a Mirror Initiative scholarship recipient and a second-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at the University of Kansas. He earned his B.S. in Psychological Science from Ball State University and his M.P.S. in Clinical Psychological Science from the University of Maryland. At the NIMH, he researched the interplay of genetics, neurobiology and cognition in schizophrenia, typically developing children and Williams Syndrome. He aims to contribute to preventive care and research for individuals with serious mental illnesses.
Facilitator
Dan Singley, PhD
Chair of the Mirror Initiative and co-founder of The Center for Men's Excellence.
Part of the Mirror Initiative
Bringing more men into psychology, and better care to men and boys
The Mirror Initiative is a national effort by APA Division 51 to bring more men into psychology and improve mental health care for men and boys. Its scholarship recipients share their research on men and boys through webinars like this one.
Join the conversation
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 2:00–3:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM–12:00 PM PT · Zoom
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82960357011