Infertility Counseling A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians Covington 2e

Description: Infertility Counseling A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians A comprehensive textbook on infertility counseling. Sharon N. Covington (Edited by), Linda Hammer Burns (Edited by) 9780521619493, Cambridge University Press Paperback / softback, published 16 October 2006 678 pages 28 x 20.7 x 3.1 cm, 1.598 kg '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 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. Subject Areas: Endocrinology [MJG], Infertility & fertilization [MFKC1], Reproductive medicine [MFKC]

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