Handbook of Fathers and Child Development : 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. Key topics addressed include:* 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-l Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Overview to Part I: Fathers, Developmental Systems, and Relationships (Hiram E. Fitzgerald)....Pages 3-4 Fathers and Very Young Children: A Developmental Systems Perspective (Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Kai von Klitzing, Natasha J. Cabrera, Júlia Scarano de Mendonça, Thomas Skjøthaug)....Pages 5-28 Fathering and Being Fathered: Developmental Interdependence (Rob Palkovitz)....Pages 29-46 The Role of Fathers in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Dis)advantages: Linking Sociological Stratification Questions to Developmental Psychology Research (Renske Keizer)....Pages 47-64 Fathers’ Reflections of their Fathers: The Use of Text Mining to Find Meaning in Narratives (Jeffrey Shears, Seongtae Kim, Joshua Kirven, Tanya Coakley)....Pages 65-88 Fathers’ Place and Role in Family Relationships (France Frascarolo-Moutinot, Nicolas Favez, Hervé Tissot, Elisabeth Fivaz-Depeursinge)....Pages 89-103 A Family Systems Perspective on Father Absence, Presence, and Engagement (Erika London Bocknek)....Pages 105-120 Fathers and Public Policy (Cynthia Osborne)....Pages 121-132 Front Matter ....Pages 133-133 Overview to Part II: Prenatal and Perinatal Influences (Thomas Skjøthaug)....Pages 135-136 Exploring Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Fatherhood and Paternal Biology: Testosterone as an Exemplar (Lee T. Gettler)....Pages 137-152 Neural Plasticity in Human Fathers (Leah Grande, Rebekah Tribble, Pilyoung Kim)....Pages 153-171 Pathways to Parenting: The Emotional Journeys of Fathers as They Prepare to Parent a New Infant (Carolyn Joy Dayton, Johanna C. Malone, Suzanne Brown)....Pages 173-194 Ghosts in the Ultrasound: Expectant Fathers’ Experience of Trauma (Richard M. Tolman, Tova B. Walsh)....Pages 195-208 Antecedents of Fathers’ Stress in Fatherhood (Thomas Skjøthaug)....Pages 209-228 Paternal Prenatal and Postpartum Depression (James F. Paulson, Kelsey T. Ellis, Regina L. Alexander)....Pages 229-244 Is It Easier the Second Time Around? Fathers’ Roles Across the Transition from One Child to Two (Brenda L. Volling, Emily J. Steinberg, Patty X. Kuo)....Pages 245-265 Front Matter ....Pages 267-267 Overview to Part III: Father-Child Transactions in Early Development (Natasha J. Cabrera)....Pages 269-271 Father-Child Attachment Relationships (Geoffrey L. Brown, Hasan Alp Aytuglu)....Pages 273-290 Fathers and the Activation Relationship (Daniel Paquette, Carole Gagnon, Julio Macario de Medeiros)....Pages 291-313 Fathers’ Emotional Availability with Their Children: Determinants and Consequences (Sarah Bergmann, Annette M. Klein)....Pages 315-337 The Role of Fathers and Their Young Children’s Social Development (Avery Hennigar, Natasha J. Cabrera, Yu Chen)....Pages 339-355 Fathers and Young Children at Play: A Scoping Review of Studies of Fathers’ Play with Sons and Daughters from Birth to Preschool (Claire D. Vallotton, Tricia Foster, Tamesha Harewood, Jody Cook, Anike R. Adekoya)....Pages 357-391 Fathers’ Language Input and Early Child Language Development (Nadya Pancsofar)....Pages 393-409 Fathers Talking and Reading with Their 3-Year-Olds During Shared Bookreading (Elisabeth Duursma, Cheryl Jialing Ho, Michelle L. Townsend, Brin F. Grenyer, Jane S. Herbert)....Pages 411-433 Fathers and Children’s Executive Function (Alyssa S. Meuwissen)....Pages 435-451 Front Matter ....Pages 453-453 Overview to Part IV: Fathers’ Involvement in Context (Júlia Scarano de Mendonça)....Pages 455-457 Fatherhood and Early Childhood Development: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa (Stephan Rabie, Sarah Skeen, Mark Tomlinson)....Pages 459-471 Father-Child Interactional Synchrony as a Function of Maternal and Paternal Depression in Low-Income Brazilian Families (Júlia Scarano de Mendonça, Vera Sílvia Raad Bussab)....Pages 473-485 African American Fathers and Their Young Children: Images from the Field (Vivian L. Gadsden, Iheoma U. Iruka)....Pages 487-506 Latino Fathers and Their Preschool Children (Cristina Mogro-Wilson)....Pages 507-520 American Indian and Alaska Native Fathers and Their Sacred Children (Joshuaa D. Allison-Burbank, Anthony (Thosh) Collins)....Pages 521-536 The Characteristics and Lived Experiences of Modern Stay-at-Home Fathers (Shawna J. Lee, Joyce Y. Lee, Olivia D. Chang)....Pages 537-549 Fathering Across Military Deployment and Reintegration (Tova B. Walsh, Katherine L. Rosenblum)....Pages 551-561 Front Matter ....Pages 563-563 Overview to Part V: Fathers and Children’s Mental Health (Kai von Klitzing)....Pages 565-567 Fathers’ Antisocial Behavior and Early Childhood (Stephanie Godleski, Rina D. Eiden)....Pages 569-580 Fatherhood, Substance Use, and Early Child Development (Thomas J. McMahon)....Pages 581-602 Fathers in Child Psychotherapy (Kai von Klitzing, Lars O. White)....Pages 603-625 Engaging Fathers of Young Children in Low-Income Families to Improve Child and Family Outcomes: A Preventive Intervention Perspective (Kyle Dean Pruett, Marsha Kline Pruett)....Pages 627-637 Connection, IT and Identity: SMS4dads as Health Promotion for New Fathers (Richard Fletcher, Jacqui A. Macdonald, Jennifer Mary StGeorge)....Pages 639-656 Designing and Tailoring Preventive Interventions for Fathers’ Parenting (David S. DeGarmo)....Pages 657-676 Fathers and Their Very Young Children: Future Directions (Robert H. Bradley)....Pages 677-700 Back Matter ....Pages 701-722 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. Key topics addressed include: 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 volume 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