What are the major therapeutic goals of Caring Dads?
There are five major therapeutic goals of the Caring Dads program. These are: 1. To develop sufficient trust and motivation to engage men in the process of examining their fathering Fathers often enter the Caring Dads program with considerable hesitation. Many are not sure that they want or need to be involved in a group such as this. An initial goal, then, is to engage men in the process of examining their own behaviour and considering whether the way they parent may contribute to difficulties they are having relating to their children. After setting ground rules for the group process, men explore where they have learned to be a father, and what lessons they have been taught. They also reflect on hopes that they have for the relationship between them and their child. 2. To increase men’s awareness of child-centred fathering The next goal of the Caring Dads program is to explore healthy, child-centred ways of relating to children. Educational material on stages of child development is
