It's All About Dad: Working with the Father Figure in Psychotherapy. Research, Discoveries, Practices

What is a father’s love, and how is it different from a mother’s? How to cope with negative experiences related to a father and become a great parent? The answers to these questions can be found in a modern study by practicing psychologists.

A father plays a significant role in a child’s life. The book is intended for psychologists, educators, parents, and adult children. It examines the importance of the father figure, his influence on different aspects of a person’s life and self-esteem, and explains why he is so necessary in everyone’s life.

Readers will learn how a father affects a child’s development and their adult life, what functions he performs, and how they differ from a mother’s. The book offers recommendations on how to compensate for the lack of positive experiences with a father and how to become a good father to your children.

Authors Yulia Zotova and Maria Letucheva offer the second edition of the book “It’s all about Dad,” expanded and revised. It includes a broader description of paternal functions and a revised section on a father’s impact on male life scenarios. Examples of positive scenarios in relationships are also included.

The book contains many practical recommendations and examples of psychotherapeutic work with the father figure that are useful for professionals and psychology students, as well as for everyone seeking answers about the father’s role in life:

- Therapeutic methods and strategies for working with the father figure;
- Tools to accurately determine when problems are connected to a father;
- Ways to help those who experience difficulties in relationships with their father.

Materials and exercises in the book help readers establish contact with the father image, accept his qualities, and find inner peace with this figure—fostering a sense of wholeness and happiness. Even those who grew up without a father can feel his significance or begin working on this topic in personal therapy.

This book will be interesting to everyone who considers the topic of relationships with a father relevant and emotionally rich. Written in an accessible language, it serves as a practical guide based on years of experience and discoveries by the authors, offering awareness, reconsideration, and the possibility of change.