Handbook of Fathers and Child Development, 1st ed. 2020 Prenatal to Preschool

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the impact of fathers on child development from prenatal years to age five. It examines the effects of the father-child relationship on the child?s neurobiological development; hormonal, emotional and behavioral regulatory systems; and on the systemic embodiment of experiences into the child?s mental models of self, others, and self-other relationships. The volume reflects two perspectives guiding research with fathers: Identifying positive and negative factors that influence early childhood development, specifying child outcomes, and emphasizing cultural diversity in father involvement; and examining multifaceted, specific approaches to guide father research.

• Direct assessment of father parenting (rather than through maternal reports).
  
• The effects of father presence (in contrast to father absence).
  
• The full diversity of father involvement.
  
• Father?s impact on gender role differentiation.
  
• Father?s role in triadic interactions of family dynamics.
  
• Father involvement in psychotherapeutic family interventions.

This handbook draws from converging perspectives about the role of fathers in very early child development, summarizes what is known, and, within each chapter, draws attention to the critical questions that need to be answered in coming decades.

The Handbook of Fathers and Child Development is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, and clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in infancy and early child development, social work, public health, developmental and clinical child psychology, pediatrics, family studies, neuroscience, juvenile justice, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, anthropology, sociology, and all interrelated disciplines.

PART I           FATHERS, DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS, AND RELATIONSHIPS

Overview:      Fathers, Developmental Systems,and Relationships

Hiram E. Fitzgerald

1   Fathers and Their Very Young Children: A Developmental Systems Perspective   

Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Kai von Klitzing, Natasha Cabrera, Julia Scarano de Mendonça, and Thomas Skjѳthaug

2    Fathering and being Fathered: Developmental Interdependence

            Rob Palkovitz

3   The Role of Fathers in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Dis)advantages: Linking Sociological Stratification Questions to Developmental Psychology Research.

            Renske Keizer

4 Fathers Reflections of their Fathers: The use of Text Mining to find Meaning in Narratives

Jeffrey K. Shears, Seong-Tae Kim, Joshua Kirven, and Tanya M. Coakley

5   Fathers’ Place and Role in Family Relationships

France Frascarolo, Nicolas Favez, Hervé Tissot, and Elizabeth Fivaz-Despeuringe

6   A Family Systems Perspective on Paternal Absence, Presence, and Engagement

            Erika Bocknek

7   Fathers and Public Policy

            Cynthia Osborne

PART II          PRENATAL AND PERINATAL INFLUENCES

Overview: Prenatal and Perinatal Influences

Thomas Skjѳthaug

8   Biological Influences on Fathers

            Lee Gettler

9   Neural Plasticity in Human Fathers

            Leah Grande, Rebekah Tribble, and Pilyoung Kim

10   Pathways to Parenting: The Emotional Journeys of Fathers as they prepare to Parent a New Infant                                

Carolyn Dayton, Johanna Malone, and Suzanne Brown 

11   Ghosts in the Ultrasound: Expectant Fathers’ Experience of Trauma

            Richard M. Tolman and Tova B. Walsh 

12   Antecedents of Fathers’ Stress in Fatherhood

Thomas Skjѳthaug

            James Paulson, Kelsey T. Ellis, and Regina L. Alexander

14   Is it Easier the Second Time Around?  Fathers’ Roles across the Transition from One Child to Two.

            Brenda L. Volling, Emily J. Steinberg, and Patty X. Kuo

Part III             FATHER-CHILD TRANSACTIONS IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT 

Overview:  Father-Child Transaction in Early Development

            Natasha Cabrera

15   Father-Child Attachment Relationships

            Geoffrey L. Brown and Alp Aytuglu

16   Fathers and the Activation Relationship

Daniel Paquette, Carole Gagnon, and Julio Macario de Medeíros

17   Fathers’ Emotional Availability with Their Children: Determinants and Consequences

Sarah Bergmann and Annette Maria Klein

18    Fathers and Social Development

Avery Hennigar, Natasha Cabrera, and Yu Chan

19    Fathers and Young Children at Play: A Scoping Review of Studies of Father Figures Play with Sons and Daughters from Birth to Preschool.

Claire Vallotton, Tricia Foster, Tamesha Harewood, Jody Cook, and Anike R. Adekoya

20   Father’s Language Input and Child Language Development

            Nadya Panecsofar

21   How do Australian Fathers Engage Their 3-year-olds during Shared Bookreading?

Elisabeth Duursma, Cheryl Jialing Ho, Michelle L. Townsend, Brin F. Grenyer and Jane S. Herbert

22   Fathers and Children’s Executive Functions

            Alyssa S. Meuwissen

PART IV        FATHER INVOLVEMENT IN CONTEXT

Overview: Fathers’ Involvement in Context

            Júlia Scarano de Mendonça

23    Fatherhood and Early Childhood Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephan Rabie, Sarah Skeen,and Mark Tomlinson

24    Father-Child Interactional Synchrony as a Function of Maternal and Paternal Depression in Low-Income Brazilian Families. 

Júlia Scarano de Mendonça and Vera Sílvia Raad Bussab

25   African American Fathers and Their Young Children: Lessons from the Field               Vivian L. Gadsden and Iheoma Iruka

26   Latino American Fathers and their Preschool Children

            Cristina Mogro-Wilson

27   Native American Fathers and their Sacred Children

            Joshuaa D. Allison-Burbank and Thosh Collins

28   Stay at Home Fathers

            Shawna J. Lee, Joyce Y. Lee, and Olivia D. Chang

29    Fathering Across Military Deployment and Reintegration

Tova B. Walsh, and Kate Rosenblum

PART V          FATHERS’ AND CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH

Overview: Father’s and Children’s Mental Health

            Kai von Klitzing

30   Fathers’ Antisocial Behavior and Early Childhood  

Stephanie Godleski and Rina D. Eiden

31   Fatherhood, Substance Use, and Early Child Development

32   Fathers in Psychotherapy

Kai Von Klitzing and Lars White

 33   Engaging Fathers of Young Children in Low Income Families to Improve Child and Family Outcomes: An Intervention and Prevention Perspective. 

Kyle Pruett and Marsha K. Pruett

34   Connection, IT and Identity: SMS4dads as Health Promotion for New Fathers

            Richard Fletcher, Jacqui A. Macdonald, and Jennifer Mary StGeorge

35   Designing and Tailoring Preventive Interventions for Fathers’ Parenting

David S. DeGarmo

36    Fathers and their Very Young Children: Future Directions

Robert H. Bradley

Index

Hiram E Fitzgerald, Ph.D., is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Associate Provost Emeritus for University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University. Dr. Fitzgerald was  associated with the Michigan Longitudinal Study of Family Risk for Alcoholism over the Life Course for 30 years, the Early Head Start National Research Consortium, the Tribal Early Childhood Research Center at the University of Colorado, Denver, the MSU Wiba Anung EHS/HS research team, is a member of the Native Children’s Research Exchange and is a member of various interdisciplinary research teams focusing on evaluation of community-based early preventive-intervention programs in Michigan. He also serves on the National Advisory Boards of the Buffet Childhood Research Center (University of Nebraska),  the Oklahoma State University Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity, and the Rocky Mountain Prevention Center (University of Colorado, Denver). Dr. Fitzgerald’s major areas of research include the study of infant and family development in community contexts, the impact of fathers on early child development, implementation of systemic community models of organizational process and change, the etiology of alcoholism, and broad issues related to the scholarship of engagement. He received a doctorate in developmental psychology (1967) from the University of Denver as well as numerous awards, including the ZERO TO THREE Dolley Madison Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to the Development and Well Being of Very Young Children, the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health Selma Fraiberg Award, and the designation of Honorary President from the World Association for Infant Mental Health. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 7, 34, 37, 43, and 50) and the Association of Psychological Science. He is an elected member of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship, and the Intern

Examines the effects of the father-child relationship on children’s neurobiological development of brain network from prenatal development to age five

Identifies positive and negative factors that influence early child development

Emphasizes cultural diversity in father involvement

Explores fathers’ impact in gender role differentiation, triadic interactions of family dynamics, and psychotherapeutic family interventions