This edited volume is the first work purposefully designed to amplify the voices of Black men in communicating their mental health needs and challenges while fathering in their families and communities. Dr. Michael Hannon has convened a group of Black fathers and aspiring fathers, who are also professional counselors, and they offer unique and untapped perspectives about the needs, challenges, and victories of Black fathering across the family life cycle in the context of an anti-Black world. In each chapter, the contributors offer counselors and other mental health professionals a resource to assist them in providing culturally relevant and responsive support to Black fathers at various points across the family life cycle and more comprehensively understand the circumstances that might prompt¿and prevent¿Black fathers to seek counseling support.

Michael D. Hannon is Associate Professor of Counseling at Montclair State University. He has over 20 years of counseling experience and his research focuses on Black men¿s wellness. Dr. Hannon¿s doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision is from the Pennsylvania State University.

List of Illustrations - Foreword - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Dr. Michael D. Hannon: Introduction - Dr. Tyce Nadrich: Expectant Straight Black Fatherhood - Dr. Alfonso Ferguson: Aspiring Black Fatherhood from a Same Gender Loving Lens - Dr. S. Kent Butler: Black Fathering for Early Education Readiness - Dr. Sam Steen: Engaged, Non-residential Black Fathering for Early Education Readiness - Dr. Linwood G. Vereen: Fathering Biracial Children in the 21
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Century - Dr. Eric Williams: Fathering Children with Developmental Differences - Rev. Robert C. Rogers: Renegotiating Relationships with Emerging Adolescents - Dr. Michael D. Hannon: Supporting Adolescent Mental Health - Rodney N. West: Fathering Adolescents for Post-secondary Success - Dr. Gelawdiyos M. Haile, Dr. Amber S. Haley, Dr. Amber R. Norman, Dr. S. Kent Butler: Black Adult Children on Their Black Fathers: A Retrospective - Dr. Michael D. Hannon: For Counselors by a Counselor: Concluding Thoughts on Counseling Black Fathers - Dr. Ivory A. Toldson: Afterword: Black Fathering Counter-Stories - Contributors.