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Richard Fletcher
Richard
J.
Fletcher,
PhD
Biography:
Richard J. Fletcher is Leader of the Fathers and Families Research Program at the Family Action Centre, Faculty of Health, The University of Newcastle, NSW. He is convener of the Australian Fatherhood Research Network. Broadly, his research team focuses on strength-based approaches to researching parent-child connection under conditions of environmental (physical and social) stress. Current projects include developing a measure of child focus for separating parents, assessing father-inclusive competencies among health and welfare practitioners, Indigenous fathers’ perspectives of fathering role and connection to children and commuting parents’ strategies for maintaining parent-child connection. Specifically, he studies father-child attachment and postnatal depression, fathering of children with autism spectrum disorders and fathers’ development of a fathering identity. Expertise: Families with Disabilities/Special Needs, Paternity Leave, Changing Definitions of Families, Fathering and postnatal depression, Father-inclusive competencies among professionals.
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