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Social workers need to work with fathers across many service systems, but lack guidance on how to do so, and most engagement, assessment, and intervention work for family-serving systems is mother- and child-focused. Father-inclusive readings and resources are also limited. Drawing on the expertise of well-regarded research and practice experts in the field, this comprehensive book provides guidance to social work practitioners and researchers on how to engage, assess, and serve fathers. Instructors can use the text to include fathers in courses on the human behavior and social environment, family systems, clinical practice, diversity, or service systems.
Social service systems, unfortunately, have often struggled to positively engage men as parents. Recent demographic trends indicate that fathers are providing more direct care to children and single-father households are one of the most rapidly growing demographic groups in the United States. Barriers to their successful engagement include biases and assumptions about men and fathers, a lack of father-friendly policies and practices in the field, limited training on how to work with fathers, and relatively limited father-inclusive social work research until recently.
This book addresses these barriers. It is a guide to social workers in their efforts to better serve men as parents, and does so from an ecological and systems perspective. Multiple case examples and practical tools are provided, as well as specific content on major social service systems. Topics explored include:
Father Engagement
Organizational "Father Friendly" Assessments
Interventions with Fathers
Setting the Course for Future Theory, Research, and Practice with Fathers
Social Work Practice with Fathers: Engagement, Assessment, and Intervention is a book that could be folded into foundation coursesin social work or used by practitioners in the field. It is an essential text for graduate students in social work, psychology, sociology, child development, allied health, and similar disciplines and professions, and a go-to resource for helping professionals/practitioners such as social workers, psychologists, and licensed professional counselors. Advanced undergraduate students in these disciplines and professions also will find the text useful in their studies and work.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction .- Chapter 2. Framing Father Engagement.- Chapter 3. Engaging Individual Fathers and Families from a Developmental and Family Systems Perspective.- Chapter 4. Engaging Fathers within Programs, Organizations, and Systems.- Chapter 5. Engaging Fathers in Research and Evaluation.- Chapter 6. Assessment with Fathers: Recognizing Strengths, Challenges, and Contexts.- Chapter 7. Organizational "Father Friendly" Assessments.- Chapter 8. Framing Interventions with Fathers.- Chapter 9. Expanding Our Understanding of Public Policies to Support Father Involvement .- Chapter 10. Group Work with Fathers in Federal Pretrial Detention and a Community-Based Residential Setting: Reflections on Practice and Policies Across Contexts .- Chapter 11. Engaging Fathers in Child Welfare and Foster Care Settings: Promoting Paternal Contributions to the Safety, Permanency, and Well-being of Children and Families.- Chapter 12. Father-Friendly School Interventions: Helping Schools Create Engagement Opportunities .- Chapter 13. Fathers' Participation in Early Childhood Programs.- Chapter 14. Fathers and Child Support: How Money Transfers and Other Interactions Impact Family Dynamics.- Chapter 15. Engaging Fathers in Intimate Partner Violence Interventions .- Chapter 16. Setting the Course for Future Theory, Research, and Practice with Fathers.
