Father’s Awakening

A Hero’s Path to Nurturing Child Mental Health

Roland Kim, Ph.D.

About This Book

This book focuses on the father’s role in a child’s emotional development and mental health. It asks fathers to move beyond providing, problem-solving, authority, or logical advice alone and to develop the emotional language needed to recognize distress, reconnect with an emotionally distant child, and become a more effective source of support.

What You’ll Explore

Early signs of emotional injury in infancy and childhood; warning signs in adolescence; the importance of paternal involvement; authoritarian and overly logical fathering styles; learning emotional language; rebuilding lost connection; modeling healthy stress coping; helping a child in crisis; and assessing parental emotional intelligence and empathic ability.

Who This Book Is For

For fathers who want to become more emotionally present and responsive, as well as mothers, caregivers, and helping professionals interested in strengthening father-child connection and supporting children through emotional or mental-health difficulties.