Joan Raphael-Leff

The Psychological Processes of Childbearing (eBook, ePUB)

Fourth Edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have occurred over the last decades, focusing on both individual and cross-cultural diversity across the now elongated childbearing cycle and the uniqueness of desire and emotional experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 663
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429921926
• Artikelnr.: 56839979

Autorenporträt

Raphael-Leff, Joan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Psychosocial Process of Childbearing Revisited
Preface
Foreword
Pregnancy Expectation
The wish for a baby: psychosocial and cultural factors
Considering parenthood: cultural, sexual and ethnic variations
Prolonged infertility: psychodynamics and psychological impact of diagnosis and treatment
Pregnancy
Womb and world: the mother
to
be
common experience and cultural variations
Maturational phases
Facilitators, Regulators and Reciprocators: different approaches to pregnancy
Psychotherapy during pregnancy
The fetus
sociocultural beliefs, maternal fantasies and fetal abilities
The professional as mediator between mother and fetus: antenatal care and assessment
The Expectant Partner
The father
to
be
Participators and Renouncers and expectant fathers at risk
Lesbian partners
Pregnancy as Transition to Parenthood
Anticipating parenthood: in the West and in other cultures
Readjusting family relationships
Re
evaluation of unconscious contracts and therapeutic opportunities
Health
care professionals as guides in the transition to motherhood
Experiences of Labour and Birth
Anticipating Childbirth
The birthplace and birth process
Uncomplicated spontaneous labour
Managed childbirth
Coping with the Outcome
The newborn: parental responses and neonatal sensory and cognitive abilities
Early days: getting acquainted
unconscious identifications and gender differences
Postpartum professional care
First six weeks: differing patterns of maternal and paternal adjustment
First six weeks: dynamics between the parents
Siblings
Adolescent parents
Adoption
Complications
Interrupted pregnancies: abortions
Prebirth loss and pregnancy complications
Disruptions around birth: prematurity and illness, stillbirth and perinatal loss
Postnatal complications: congenital abnormalities and critical conditions in infancy
Postnatal psychological complications
Interaction of Psychological and Social Factors Influencing Breast Feeding
Facilitators & Regulators Questionnaire (FRQ)
PPQ
Placental Paradigm Questionnaire
Pregnancy and Early Motherhood