Introduction / Dr. Michael D. Hannon -- Expectant straight black fatherhood / Dr. Tyce Nadrich -- Aspiring black fatherhood from a same gender loving lens / Dr. Alfonso Ferguson -- Black fathering for early education readiness / Dr. S. Kent Butler -- Engaged, non-residential black fathering for early education readiness / Dr. Sam Steen -- Fathering biracial children in the 21st century / Dr. Linwood G. Vereen -- Fathering children with developmental differences / Dr. Eric Williams -- Renegotiating relationships with emerging adolescents / Rev. Robert C. Rogers -- Supporting adolescent mental health / Dr. Michael D. Hannon -- Fathering adolescents for post-secondary success / Rodney N. West -- Black adult children on their black fathers: a retrospective / Dr. Gelawdiyos M. Haile, Dr. Amber S. Haley, Dr. Amber R. Norman, and Dr. S. Kent Butler -- For counselors by a counselor: concluding thoughts on counseling black fathers / Dr. Michael D. Hannon -- Afterword: black fathering counter-stories / Dr. Ivory A.Toldson.
Summary:
"This edited volume is the first work purposefully designed to amplify the voices of Black men in communicating their mental health needs and challenges while fathering in their families and communities. Dr. Michael Hannon has convened a group of Black fathers and aspiring fathers, who are also professional counselors, and they offer unique and untapped perspectives about the needs, challenges, and victories of Black fathering across the family life cycle in the context of an anti-Black world. In each chapter, the contributors offer counselors and other mental health professionals a resource to assist them in providing culturally relevant and responsive support to Black fathers at various points across the family life cycle and more comprehensively understand the circumstances that might prompt - and prevent -Black fathers to seek counseling support"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.