Issues and concerns for men contacting Mensline Australia

Mensline Australia is the only national, professional telephone counselling service for men in Australia. Although the service focuses on family relationship concerns, counsellors also respond to a broad range of other issues that impact on men, including physical health, mental health, sexual concerns, financial pressures, legal issues and work-related concerns. Over the past seven years of operation the service has received over half a million calls. The Mensline Australia database underwent a major overhaul in 2006 to enable more comprehensive data capture regarding men\u27s relationship concerns and relevant risk factors. After two years, the new database contains records from nearly 70,000 men, providing a rich and detailed account of the relationship issues experienced by many men in Australia.The following paper draws on 68,612 calls from men to the 1300 78 99 78 Mensline Australia telephone counselling line that were recorded between July 2006 and June 2007