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Except in cases that involved abuse, parents and/ or children who have

FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration. Except in cases that involved abuse, parents and/ or children who have experienced forced separation from one another, including cases of parental alienation, are highly subject to post-traumatic stress.

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Except in cases that involved abuse, parents and/ or children who have

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  1. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Except in cases that involved abuse, parents and/or children who have experienced forced separation from one another, including cases of parental alienation, are highly subject to post-traumatic stress. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  2. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration The quality of the parent-child relationship is often compromised when a parent feels left out because of their non-residential parental status, but also in situations where the parent feels overwhelmed due to having to assume all parental responsibilities. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  3. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration In most cases, the role of the father in the life of his child has been involuntarily lowered to being nothing but a financial provider, rather than an active caregiver, by our family courts, social service systems, and in many instances, the mother of the child. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  4. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Heartfelt relationships are sustained and developed through an emotional connectedness; made possible through the emotional stability and security of fair and equal parenting time. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  5. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration www.daddysrighthere.net http://differentparentingstyles.wordpress.com

  6. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration www.daddysrighthere.net http://www.teendriversource.org

  7. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Potential causes of these differences include socio-economic status, religion, education, personality type, family size, culture, parental history, and religion. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  8. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Having the father perform a self-evaluation to determine his preferred style of parenting is a great place to begin. This also establishes etiology and a starting point for a service plan, or dialogue. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  9. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Teach fathers to embrace their individualism; learning that their traits set them apart from anyone else. What he brings into the family is what shapes and defines the family; making it distinct from other families. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  10. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Observing father-child-mother interaction during visits, telephone calls, and written correspondence will enable development of an effective approach toward increasing the quantity, and improving the quality of these relationships. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  11. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration 8-Relationship Improving Suggestions In the institution, establish a library of varied aged books to be used during visits and/or phone calls. If the book is purchased outside of the institution, a copy should be made for the father to have on hand during engagement. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  12. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Establish a child-friendly environment in the institution’s visiting area. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  13. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Encourage fathers to alternate phone calls between the mother/caregiver and the child, or commit the first ten minutes of every call to speaking with the child. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  14. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration For institutional staff, make fatherhood part of the discussion; ultimately part of the service plan. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  15. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration For family members, significant others, and friends, encourage the mother to abstain from lengthy conversations, and those which deviate from improving the father-child relationship. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  16. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Encourage fathers to immediately embrace the child before all other visiting members. This embrace should also be a time when the father verbalizes his affection for the child i.e., “I love you.”, “I missed you.” “I am so glad you came to visit me.” www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  17. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration There should always be a task given at the end of each engagement (visit, call) that will be followed-up on at the next engagement. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

  18. FATHER TIME: Improving the Quality of Father-Child Engagement During Incarceration Always keep your word. Always be honest about the situation. www.daddysrighthere.net Sabir Alim,MHS

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