It's All About Dad. Working with the Father Figure in Psychotherapy

Dad is important! Psychologists and teachers, mothers and fathers, as well as children who have already become adults, this book is for you! You will learn about the importance of a father figure for a child, about the influence of contact with dad on all spheres of life and self-esteem, about why he is so important in the life of every person.

- How does a father influence a child’s development and adult life?
- What functions does it perform and how do they differ from the maternal ones?
- What to do if you don’t have or don’t have enough positive experience of communicating with your own father?
- Is it possible to fill this gap and how will life change as a result?
- How to be a good dad for your children?

The book by psychologists Yulia Zotova and Maria Letucheva is devoted to the answers to these questions. This is the second - supplemented and revised - edition of the bestseller "It's All About Dad". The authors expanded the content with a detailed description of paternal functions, and also revised the section on the influence of the father on male scenarios. A chapter with examples of positive scenarios in relationships appeared.
The book contains many practical recommendations and examples of psychotherapeutic work with the father figure, which will be useful for practicing specialists and students studying to become psychologists, as well as for anyone who wants to find answers to questions regarding the role of the father in a person’s life:
- therapeutic techniques and strategies in working with the father figure to provide more effective psychological assistance;
- tools that help to accurately determine when the problem is with dad;
- ways to help people who have problems in their relationship with their father.

The materials and exercises offered by the authors help the reader to get in touch with the image of his own father, to be filled with the resource from this figure, to accept his strengths and weaknesses, to reconcile with him internally and ultimately to feel more whole and happy. Even those who grew up without a father begin to feel his significant presence in their lives or at least get the opportunity to work with this long-hushed topic in the process of their own personal therapy.
The book will be of interest to anyone for whom the topic of relationships with their father is relevant and emotionally charged.
The book is written in a language accessible to a wide range of readers. But this is not entertaining reading, but a practical guide based on the authors' many years of observation and their discoveries in working with clients. You will receive recommendations that will help you realize, rethink, and even change something.

Author: Yulia Zotova, Maria Letucheva
Year of issue: 2023
Publisher: AST
Pages: 448
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 218x145x40 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-158424-5