Infertility Counseling (eBook, ePUB)

A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians
Redaktion: Covington, Sharon N.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians, 2nd edition, is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary textbook for all health professionals providing care for individuals facing reproductive health issues. It is the most thorough and extensive book currently available for clinicians in the field of infertility counseling, providing an exhaustive and comprehensive review of topics. It addresses both the medical and psychological aspects of infertility, reviewing assessment approaches, treatment strategies, counseling for medical conditions impacting fertility, third-party reproduction, alternative family building and post infertility counseling issues. Each chapter follows the same format: introduction, historical overview, literature review, theoretical framework, identification of clinical issues, suggestions for therapeutic interventions, and future implication. This edition also includes extensive appendixes of clinical tools useful to the clinician, including an Internet database of resources and an extensive glossary of terminology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139814126
• Artikelnr.: 52975994

Autorenporträt

Sharon N. Covington is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. She is also currently the Director of Psychological Support Services at Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center in Rockville, Maryland. A psychotherapist for over 30 years, she practises individual, couple and group psychotherapy as well as the highly specialized area of infertility counseling.
Linda Hammer Burns is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Director of Counseling Services at the Reproductive Medicine Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has been a psychologist over 20 years providing individual and couple counseling in women's health psychology with a special focus on reproductive health psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Roger D. Kempers; Part I. Overview: 1. Psychology of infertility
Linda Hammer Burns and Sharon N. Covington; 2. Medical aspects of
infertility for the counselor William R. Keye, Jr.; 3. The psychology of
gender-specific infertility diagnoses William D. Petok; 4. Cross-cultural
issues in infertility counseling Michaela Hynie and Linda Hammer Burns;
Part II. Assessment: 5. Psychosocial evaluation of the infertile patient
Susan Caruso Klock; 6. Psychopathology and psychopharmacology in the
infertile patient Katherine E. Williams and Laurel N. Zappert; 7.
Evidenced-based approaches to infertility counseling Jacky Boivin; Part
III. Treatment Modalities: 8. Individual counseling and psychotherapy Linda
D. Applegarth; 9. Counseling the infertile couple Christopher R. Newton;
10. Group approaches to infertility counseling Sharon N. Covington; 11.
Behavioral medicine approaches to infertility counseling Christianne
Verhaak and Linda Hammer Burns; 12. Complementary and alternative medicine
in infertility counseling Jacqueline N. Gutmann and Sharon N. Covington;
13. Sexual counseling and Infertility Linda Hammer Burns; Part IV. Medical
Counseling Issues: 14. Patients with medically complicating conditions
Donald B. Maier, Sharon N. Covington and Louise U. Maier; 15. Genetic
counseling and the infertile patient Linda Hammer Burns, Krista
Redlinger-Grosse and Cheri Schoonveld; 16. Pregnancy loss Sharon N.
Covington; Part V. Third-Party Reproduction: 17. Recipient counseling for
donor insemination Petra Thorn; 18. Recipient counseling for oocyte
donation Patricia L. Sachs and Linda Hammer Burns; 19. The donor as
patient: assessment and support Linda D. Applegarth and Sheryl A.
Kingsberg; 20. Embryo donation: counseling donors and recipients Linda D.
Applegarth; 21 Surrogacy and gestational carrier participants Hilary
Hanafin; Part VI. Alternative Family Building: 22. Adoption after
infertility Linda P. Salzer; 23. Involuntary childlessness Gretchen Sewall
and Linda Hammer Burns; Part VII. Postinfertility Counseling Issues: 24.
Ending treatment Janet E. Takefman; 25. Pregnancy after infertility Sharon
N. Covington and Linda Hammer Burns; 26 Parenting after infertility Linda
Hammer Burns; 27. Assisted reproductive technology and the impact on
children Dorothy A. Greenfeld and Susan Caruso Klock; Part VIII.
Infertility Counseling in Practice: 28. Infertility counseling in practice:
a collaborative reproductive healthcare model Sharon N. Covington; 29.
Ethical aspects of infertility counseling Nancy Stowe Kader and Dorothy A.
Greenfeld; 30 Legal issues in infertility counseling Margaret E. Swain; 31.
Global perspectives on infertility counseling Jean M. Haase and Eric Blyth;
Appendixes; 1. Qualification guidelines for mental health professionals in
reproductive medicine; 2. International comparison of standards/guidelines
for infertility counselors; 3. Comprehensive psychosocial history for
infertility (CPHI); 4. Psychological fertility-related questionnaires; 5.
Recommended guidelines for the screening and counseling of oocyte donors;
6. Psychological guidelines for embryo donation; 7. Psychological
guidelines for evaluation and counseling of gestational carriers and
intended parents; 8. Release of information example; 9. Informed consent:
pre-psychological counseling and/or evaluation example; 10. Informed
consent: proceeding with fertility treatments: post-MHP
consultation/evaluation example; 11. Embryo donor consents: consent of
couple to donate frozen embryos Example; 12. Embryo recipients' consents:
consent to receive thawed donated embryos example; Resources; Glossary;
Author index; Subject index.