The Danger of Emotional Concealment from a Male Clinician's Perspective

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My name is Charles Jones. I am a licensed clinical social worker. I currently work for Innovative Renal Care, a profit-oriented organization specializing in renal therapy (hemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, and home hemodialysis) for patients with end-stage renal disease. My role is to provide social services, including housing, transportation needs, health insurance coverage, patient-family support, and to resolve patient-patient, patient-staff, and staff-staff conflicts, and to advocate for patients’ needs. I provide brief counseling on an as-needed basis, but referrals are made to outpatient services for those in deep mental health crises, such as grief, hospice decision-making for end-of-life choices. In the past, I worked as an In-Home Therapist, mostly with children and high schoolers who struggled with conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, anxiety, depression, separation anxiety, attachment disorder, substance use disorder in the family, domestic violence, ma