UNED Madrid, Spain

The father figure in the family group

The father figure in the family setting has traditionally been studied less than the mother figure. Currently, there is an extensive amount of literature that has gone into detail about the role of this figure in the psychological adjustment of their children and the main conclusion is that the importance of this figure is, at least, as relevant as a mother figure. However, there are still a vast amount of unexplained questions in relation to the differential contribution of one and the other in the children´s adjustment as well as the relevance of either one of them depending on the type of disorder. The aim of this symposium is to analyse the father´s role in today’s Spanish family setting. Using an extensive and recent sample of Spanish families, there will be a discussion on the involvement of the father, his contribution to his children´s different psychological problems and an explanatory model of how the family dynamic and its characteristics affect the psychological health of the children will be tentatively proposed.

Miguel Ángel Carrasco Ortiz, Professor of Psychological Assessment in the Psychology Faculty at the National University for Distance Education and coordinator of the Psychology Service at this university. His research and teaching activities have been focussed fundamentally on the assessment of problems in children and adolescents. To find more details on his scientific attributes, as well as his teaching and clinical duties click on the following web page: 
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