Covington Sharon N., Burns Linda Hammer (eds.) Infertility Counseling A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians

2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 680 p. — ISBN: 9780521853637Infertility 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.Overview:Psychology of infertility
Medical aspects of infertility for the counselor
The psychology of gender-specific infertility diagnoses
Cross-cultural issues in infertility counseling
Assessment:
Psychosocial evaluation of the infertile patient
Psychopathology and psychopharmacology in the infertile patient
Evidenced-based approaches to infertility counseling
Treatment Modalities:
Individual counseling and psychotherapy
Counseling the infertile couple
Group approaches to infertility counseling
Behavioral medicine approaches to infertility counseling
Complementary and alternative medicine in infertility counseling
Sexual counseling and Infertility
Medical Counseling Issues:
Patients with medically complicating conditions
Genetic counseling and the infertile patient
Pregnancy loss
Third-Party Reproduction:
Recipient counseling for donor insemination
Recipient counseling for oocyte donation
The donor as patient: assessment and support
Embryo donation: counseling donors and recipients
Surrogacy and gestational carrier participants
Alternative Family Building:
Adoption after infertility
Involuntary childlessness
Postinfertility Counseling Issues:
Ending treatment
Pregnancy after infertility
Parenting after infertility
Assisted reproductive technology and the impact on children
Infertility Counseling in Practice:
Infertility counseling in practice: a collaborative reproductive healthcare model S
Ethical aspects of infertility counseling
Legal issues in infertility counseling
Global perspectives on infertility counseling