Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 10/16/2006
EAN 9780521853637, ISBN10: 052185363X
Hardcover, 680 pages, 27.9 x 21.6 x 3.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
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.
'This is a book that will be of benefit to seasoned professionals as well as newcomers working in any of the different fields involved in the provision of ART and infertility treatment. The information in Infertility Counseling may have the most relevance for mental health professionals, but it can have an impact on clinical practice for all of the professions that constitute the infertility team.' Fertility and Sterility