Poppa Psychology: The Role of Fathers in Children's Mental Well-Being

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Many people seem to be searching for answers to help explain their past, understand their current way of being, and help them create a happier future. This book questions the habit of blaming mothers for emotional problems, and focuses on the father-child relationship. Regardless of whether the father is present or absent, his actions will have a direct influence on the child's development. The book examines the ramifications of the father-child relationship and its effects on the child-turned-adult.

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"It will convince anyone with family problems to seek professional help, and it provides practical information to help everyone get started.... [T]he boo will be of interest to: parents seeking clinically oriented parenting advice, readers seeking to understand their impact on their children, and clinicians who have neglected to consider fathers in etiology and treatment."-Journal of Marriage and the Family
It will convince anyone with family problems to seek professional help, and it provides practical information to help everyone get started.... [T]he boo will be of interest to: parents seeking clinically oriented parenting advice, readers seeking to understand their impact on their children, and clinicians who have neglected to consider fathers in etiology and treatment.-Journal of Marriage and the Family
Phares offers a careful description of how fathers and children influence one another, how fathering varies under diverse cultural and socioeconomic contexts, and how positive changes in relationships can be brought about therapeutically....Useful for academic collections supporting courses in psychology at all levels.-Social & Behavioral Studies
The focus in this thoughtful, sensible, and useful reviews is on the centrality of the father's influence on his childern....Multiethnic parenting issues (visitation rights, monetary support, teen preganancy, and gay and lesbian parenting) are considered, and readers are encouraged to make critical assessments about paternal influences rather than succumb to common "mother blaming."-Readings
"Phares offers a careful description of how fathers and children influence one another, how fathering varies under diverse cultural and socioeconomic contexts, and how positive changes in relationships can be brought about therapeutically....Useful for academic collections supporting courses in psychology at all levels."-Social & Behavioral Studies
"The focus in this thoughtful, sensible, and useful reviews is on the centrality of the father's influence on his childern....Multiethnic parenting issues (visitation rights, monetary support, teen preganancy, and gay and lesbian parenting) are considered, and readers are encouraged to make critical assessments about paternal influences rather than succumb to common "mother blaming.""-Readings

Author Bio

VICKY PHARES is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.