This book explores how the role of fathers, their relationship with their child and partner has changed, how fathers feel and behave in different familial and cultural contexts, and what consequences this has for therapy and counseling for children and adolescents as well as their parents. It is written for child and adolescent psychotherapists, psychological psychotherapists in clinics and practices, school counselors, educators, social educators, staff in educational counseling centers, and family therapists.

Contents include: Deficiencies in previous father research, fatherhood in transition and different types of fathers, the emphasis on gender: fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, comparing father and mother, homosexual fathers: Why are experiences of difference important? Are new fathers "in crisis"? Absent fathers due to divorce.