There are some evidence-based approaches, including dialectical behavioral therapy skills training (DBT), emotion-focused therapy, acceptance and mindfulness-based therapy (ACT), and emotion-regulation therapy (ERT), incorporating some form of emotion regulation training.

Emotion-focused intervention strategies

A comprehensive approach will require strategies that affect the social ecology's outer levels, particularly given that boys and men are bombarded daily by messages from society about what it means to be a man. Several existing curriculum-based programs, such as teen dating violence prevention curriculums, could be developed as prevention strategies to be implemented at the individual or peer level. 

Integrated strategies for psychopathological outcomes of masculinity

The article argued that resolving the harmful effect of masculinity may require shifting from individualized service delivery to a comprehensive and multi-pronged public health approach. The public health approaches should be implemented across the individual, peer, family, and community to maximize health promotion.

Public health approach for the harmful effect of masculinity 

．Emotion-focused intervention strategies

．Public health approach

．Integrated strategies 

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This model depicts a path from masculinity to psychopathology in men through emotion regulation difficulties.

A dynamic model of masculinity and men's psychopathology

Berke, D. S., Reidy, D., & Zeichner, A. (2018). Masculinity, emotion regulation, and psychopathology: A critical review and integrated model. Clinical psychology review, 66, 106-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.01.004 

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