‘Promoting the physical, mental, emotional, and social health of men, and attitudes and behaviors that will benefit everyone.’
The UOMC provides training to undergraduate and graduate students in the social services though volunteer, practicum and internship involvement, training workshops, and leadership/intervention opportunities to develop and implement innovative treatment strategies with college men. The UOMC provides an environment for students to apply some of the intervention strategies they are learning in classrooms to live settings. The learning atmosphere encourages mentoring relationships between students and counseling professionals as they work collaboratively on shared tasks. Additionally, students have an opportunity to explore their own gender role socialization and role expectations in an informal setting. Many of the students who take advantage of this opportunity are graduate students from the Counseling Psychology or Couples and Family Counseling Programs or are undergraduates from the Family and Human Services program.
Additionally, the UOMC provides training for student service and housing professionals to increase their awareness of menŐs issues and ability to intervene with college men. Finally, UOMC members provide training at regional and national conferences. Last year for example, pre-doctoral intern Lee Land, Counseling Psychology graduate student Gerald Gonzales, and advisor Jon Davies presented on the effects of MenŐs Center involvement upon the male identity of Center volunteers at the national conference of the American Psychological Association. (See attached addendum for more information about students trained at the UOMC).
In the last seven years, four different directors, all of whom where UO graduate students from the Counseling Psychology Program or Couples and Family Counseling, have developed leadership skills and integrated counseling theory with practice.