Missing Fathers: The Absent Parent Trauma
Fri, Nov 20
|Online Event


Time & Location
Nov 20, 2020, 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Online Event
About the Event
Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW
Training Description
Develop a better understanding of the importance of fathers to the youth with whom we work. This epidemic of the often-absent father doesn’t mean that the father doesn’t fulfill an important role in a child’s and family’s life. We often leave the paternal side of the youth’s family completely out of an assessment when developing our treatment/service plans with youth in out of home care even though the father is very much a part of the youth’s “picture” and impacts their day-to-day functioning. Remember, the pain of the missing father is a big reason for the symptoms that we are trying to ameliorate so we can’t forget this area of pain.
Learning Objectives
Identify the reasons that fathers are important and the barriers as to why they don’t get included, in a meaningful way, within our continuums of care that serve youth: child welfare,…