Infertility Counseling : A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians

This book provides any mental health professional, physician, nurse, genetic counselor, embryologist, or other healthcare provider and members of the reproductive healthcare team with the knowledge and understanding needed to provide professionally competent, culturally sensitive assistance to infertile patients by addressing the complex psychosocial issues related to infertility.

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.