Embracing Your Father: How to Build the Relationship You Always Wanted with Your Dad

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of Warrior Traditions, interviews Dr. Linda Nielsen, author of Embracing Your Father: How to Build the Relationship You Always Wanted with Your Dad  published by McGraw-Hill.

A nationally recognized expert on father-daughter relationships, Dr. Nielsen has been teaching, conducting research and writing about adolescents and father-daughter relationships since 1970. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the recipient of of the outstanding graduate's award in teacher education from the University of Tennessee in 1969, she taught high school for several years before earing an MA in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Educational and Adolescent Psychology.

She joined the faculty of  Wake Forest University in 1974. Since 1991 she has been teaching her "Fathers & Daughters" course- the only college course in the country that focuses exclusively on father-daughter relationships. Her research and advice have been featured on a PBS documentary.   Visit Dr. Nielsen's website.

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