From Generation to Generation

Recent literature presents parenthood as a crisis and/or growth experience (Russell, 1974). This paper refocuses this issue from an orientation toward outcome to one on process. It examines the transition into fatherhood in terms of six tasks which must be completed or mastered if this process is to be gratifying and rewarding. These tasks include decision-making, mourning, empathic responding, integrating, differentiating from the extended family and establishing family boundaries, and synergizing. These tasks were derived from the authors' work with groups of fathers-to-be in a prepared childbirth program. Group work with these fathers is also described in terms of appropriate clinical interventions. The role of self-disclosing, providing information, eliciting affect, recruiting interpersonal resources, normalizing, and personalizing are examined as intervention strategies which can be utilized in such groups

Biology · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Generation gap · Generation x · Political science · Transition (genetics) · Genetics · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Psychology

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