Catherine McMahon

Becoming a Parent (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Contexts and Challenges during the Transition to Parenthood

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Provides an evidence-based overview of the challenges of becoming a parent in a broad range of contemporary contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108875431
• Artikelnr.: 70911450

Autorenporträt

Catherine McMahon is Honorary Professor at the School of Psychological Sciences in Macquarie University, Australia. Her research focuses on psychological adaptation during the transition to parenthood, and she has published extensively on perinatal mood disorders, infertility and assisted conception, and the parent-infant relationship. Her current collaborative work with community-based services aims to build an evidence base for programs to support parenting in the early years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Contemplating parenthood: why children?
2. Reproductive technologies
3. Becoming a mother
4. Becoming a father
5. High stakes pregnancies: the impact of infertility, risk, and loss
6. Alternative pathways: becoming a parent through reproductive donation, or adoption
7. Childbirth
8. The 4th trimester
9. The way forward: clinical, social, and policy initiatives to support new parents.