Counseling Fathers

This book speaks to the variety of fathers and the issues that they face. Men do not often enter into counseling or therapy because they are having difficulties with being a father, but many of the presenting problems and self-described reasons for seeking help can be related to the roles and responsibilities of parenting. There are different expectations associated with being a father today than in previous generations, and now men are often faced with conflicting views, roles, and responsibilities. This book provides the mental health practitioner with a guide for working with fathers in therapy, whether the issues of parenting are at the center of the discussions or in the background. todays fathers and the issues that they face. A first section