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Englar-Carlson, Matt

Professor of Counseling

Department of Counseling

Office: 657-278-5062

Department: 657-278-5062

Email: mattec@fullerton.edu

Biography:

Doctor of Philosophy: Counseling Psychology, 2001 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Master of Education: Counselor Education, 1995 (Elementary School Counseling) The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Stanford University, Stanford, CA Master of Arts: Health Psychology Education, 1994 Matt Englar-Carlson, PhD, is a professor and department chair in counseling at California State University, Fullerton, where he also directs the Center for Boys and Men. A core author of the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men, he co-created the Positive Psychology Positive Masculinities model to foster strength-based, healthy masculinities in schools and community settings. His books include In the Room with Men: A Casebook of Therapeutic Change, Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals, Beyond the 50-Minute Hour: Therapists Involved in Meaningful Social Action, A Counselor’s Guide to Working with Men, and the upcoming Listening to the Voices of Men in Therapy and the Therapists Who Work with Them. He is a member of the APA Task Force for Boys on School, the clinical advisor for the men’s mental health app, Mental, and serves on Movember’s Global Men’s Health Advisory Committee, and the advisory board for the Positive Masculinity Foundation. His work, emphasizing healthy boyhood, impacts education in schools and community settings. He has worked children, adults, and families in school, community, and university mental health settings.


Areas of Knowledge:

  • men and masculinity
  • boys and male adolescents
  • child counseling
  • mental health of men
  • clinical work with boys and men
  • social class as cultural variable
  • changing gender roles for men
  • men and diversity
  • group process
  • fatherhood
  • social justice and men
  • group leadership
  • positive psychology and men
  • healthy masculinties
  • boys in schools
  • educational outcomes for boys
  • mental health of boys
  • men's health

Subject(s):

  • Education -- K-12

 

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