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Mitigating the Harms of Masculinity: A Symposium on the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men

In August of 2018, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a new report entitled, APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men (2018). These Guidelines summarize the extensive scholarship documenting dilemmas associated with masculinity that harm boys’ and men’s lives. They discuss many elements of what is labeled “traditional” masculinity, which requires boys and men to suppress certain feelings and emotions (e.g., sadness and loneliness), limiting their psychosocial development and shaping their behaviors, relationships, and identities. In other words, subscribing to ideologies of conventional or “hegemonic” (i.e., currently and situationally valorized) masculinity (Connell 1995) comes with psychological and interpersonal costs. These constraints can lead to boys’ and men’s lack of empathy for girls and women, as well as for gay and “effeminate” boys, and for LGBTQþ individuals. At the same time, they operate within a culture where “himpathy” leads people to identify with even poorly