Fatherhood Scenarios

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.

Rama Rao Gogineni, MD is Professor in Psychiatry at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He trained at the University of Pennsylvania, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Family Institute of Philadelphia, and Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has received numerous regional, national, and international awards and served as a volunteer advocate for many organizations. He is the editor of two previous books. April E. Fallon, PhD, is a Professor at Fielding Graduate University and Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Drexel College of Medicine. She has co-authored seven books on group development and group therapy, adoption, and pregnancy. Additionally, she has written and researched on attachment, body image, eating disorders and child abuse. Andres J. Pumariega, MD, has devoted his 40-plus-year career to children's systems of care and cultural diversity in mental health. He held several teaching and administrative positions and chaired three departments of psychiatry. He has headed many paediatric psychiatry consultation-liaison services, directorships of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and chaired departments of psychiatry. He has over 250 scientific publications on culture, diversity, and disparities on children's mental health. Salman Akhtar, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has over 450 publications including 110 authored or edited books.

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 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 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