Description
Fatherhood Scenarios offers a wide range of perspectives, including different cultural and ethnic perspectives and chapters considering the role of the father throughout the lifespan, including experiences of gay fathers, adoptive fathers, and disabled fathers.
With contributors from around the world representing diverse mental health disciplines, these chapters constitute a harmonious gestalt of knowledge, information, theory, and socio-clinical dimensions pertaining to fatherhood. The emphasis of all these sections is nonetheless the psychosocial tasks of fatherhood as it undergoes subtle and gradual transformation with the offspring’s growth through childhood and adolescence to full adulthood, including becoming a parent themselves. The book also traces the portrayal of fatherhood in popular media including television and movies keeping in mind their evolution and transformation over the past many decades.
Spanning a vast terrain of psychosocial concern, Fatherhood Scenarios will be of great appeal to mental health professionals, psychotherapists, child psychiatrists, and family welfare workers in practice and in training.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Editors and Contributors
Introduction
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
Becoming a father
Saurav Sengupta and David Kaye
PART I: DEVELOPMENTAL SCENARIOS
CHAPTER TWO
Father's role during adolescence
Robert Eberwein and Rama Rao Gogineni
CHAPTER THREE
Fathering adult children
Pirooz Sholevar and Ellen Sholevar
CHAPTER FOUR
Father’s becoming a grandfather
Pirooz Sholevar and Ellen Sholevar
CHAPTER FIVE
Father’s Death
Thomas Wolman
PART II: CULTURAL SCENARIOS
CHAPTER SIX
Latino fathers
Eugenio Rothe and Andres Pumariega
CHAPTER SEVEN
African American fathers
Lisa M Cullins, Martine Solages, Howard Crumpton and Shalice McKnight
CHAPTER EIGHT
Fathers on television
Thomas Parinello, Jeffrey Goldberg and Max Heinrich
PART III: EMERGING SCENARIOS
CHAPTER NINE
Stepfathers
Eugenio Rothe
CHAPTER TEN
Gay fathers
Peter Daniolos and T. Dawson Woodrum
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Learning from recollections of a disabled father
Daniel Gottleib and Chris Winfrey
Adoptive fathers
April Fallon and Virginia Brabender
PART IV: CLINICAL SCENARIOS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Father transferences in the clinical situation
Theodore Fallon
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Fathers’ role in mental health of children
Michael Shapiro
From the need of a father to father hunger
Rao Gogineni and Robert Eberwein
EPILOGUE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Visiting the father’s grave
Salman Akhtar and Andrew Smolar
Index
