Research Catalog

Title

Fathers and developmental psychopathology / Vicky Phares.

Author

Phares, Vicky.

Publication

New York : Wiley, 1996.

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Details

Description

viii, 405 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

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• And why do mothers have to bear such an unfair share of the responsibility for children's emotional and behavioral problems? These questions point to mysteries whose roots must surely run deep in our paternalistic Western traditions.
• How should research into the area best proceed?
• The first book to offer an in-depth, scholarly treatment of the contributions fathers make to their children's emotional and behavioral problems, Fathers and Developmental Psychopathology is a valuable resource for clinical psychologists - especially clinical child psychologists and specialists in developmental, abnormal, and family psychology - child and family therapists, and ultimately all mental health practitioners who may be called upon to treat psychologically disturbed children.
• This book was written in an effort to help broaden the parental focus of the contemporary discourse on developmental psychopathology. To that end, it provides a comprehensive review of the current theory, research, and clinical issues related to the role of fathers in developmental psychopathology, and takes a multidisciplinary approach, answering crucial questions such as: Who are today's fathers? What is known about fathers and psychological maladjustment in children?
• While considerable attention has been paid to the role of fathers in normal child development, when it comes to identifying parental influences on a child's psychological maladjustment, the focus of most modern psychological thinking is radically skewed toward the mothering side of the family equation. Why does the father's role in his child's emotional and behavioral problems receive such scant attention?

Series Statement

Wiley series on personality processes

Uniform Title

Wiley series on personality processes.

Subjects

• Child psychopathology > Etiology
• Father-Child Relations
• Psychology, Child
• Child Development
• Father and child

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-386) and index.

Contents

1. Demographics and Trends -- 2. Fathers and Normative Development -- 3. Mother Blaming -- 4. Models and Theories of Developmental Psychopathology -- 5. Referred Children and Characteristics of Their Fathers -- 6. Referred Fathers and Characteristics of Their Children -- 7. Nonreferred Fathers and Children -- 8. Methodological Issues and Research Hints -- 9. Future Directions in Therapy -- 10. Future Directions in Research.

ISBN

0471599409 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

95020363

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries