Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians
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A comprehensive textbook on infertility counseling. Doody Review Services Reviewer:Emily S. Jungheim, M.D.(Washington University School of Medicine)Description:A follow-up to the 1999 first edition, this is a broad reference for those interested in addressing and understanding the unique psychosocial needs of infertility patients.Purpose:This book sets out to "provide a definitive textbook on infertility counseling." There is a great need for such a book not only for counselors, but also for the many other participants in the care of infertility patients. While it is difficult to create such an all-encompassing book, as individual patients come for fertility care with so many different backgrounds and expectations, this one comes close. Where the book falls short, cited resources in the back of the book can often be used. One example of where the book is lacking is in the insight needed for counseling patients with disabilities such as spinal cord injury -- a group of patients not uncommonly seen in infertility clinics.Audience:The authors, respected in this field, aim their book at counselors and practitioners in the fields of obstetrics and gynecology and at those specializing in infertility care.Features:The book covers a wide range of unique topics that arise in the counseling of infertility patients, including both medical and psychosocial issues. It is particularly comprehensive in addressing third-party reproduction with oocyte, sperm, and embryo donation, and gestational carriers. The appendixes provide a nice collection of references for questionnaires addressing specific concerns an infertility patient may have or experience. Unfortunately, this book fails to adequately address some of the issues facing minority patient populations that are more commonly encountered in the infertility office, such as patients with disabilities and gay and lesbian patients.Assessment:This is a quality overview of the approaches to the unique psychosocial concerns of infertility patients. The new edition is timely as our knowledge and application of technology in this field has exploded since the first edition in 1999. The book covers a broad spectrum of topics, but with a field that is constantly expanding with new and sometimes controversial technology, it is difficult to provide a book that is both comprehensive and still manageable as a reference. Where the book falls short, it often provides the reader with resources for further study and information.
1Pychology of infertility12Medical aspects of infertility for the counselor203The psychology of gender-specific infertility diagnoses374Cross-cultural issues in infertility counseling615Psychosocial evaluation of the infertile patient836Psychopathology and psychopharmacology in the infertile patient977Evidenced-based approaches to infertility counseling1178Individual counseling and psychotherapy1299Counseling the infertile couple14310Group approaches to infertility counseling15611Behavioral medicine approaches to infertility counseling16912Complementary and alternative medicine in infertility counseling19613Sexual counseling and infertility21214Patients with medically complicating conditions23715Genetic counseling and the infertile patient25816Pregnancy loss29017Recipient counseling for donor insemination30518Recipient counseling for oocyte donation31919The donor as patient : assessment and support33920Embryo donation : counseling donors and recipients35621Surrogacy and gestational carrier participants37022Adoption after infertility38723Involuntary childlessness41124Ending treatment42925Pregnancy after infertility44026Parenting after infertility45927Assisted reproductive technology and the impact on children47728Infertility counseling in practice : a collaborative reproductive healthcare model49329Ethical aspects of infertility counseling50830Legal issues in infertility counseling52131Global perspectives on infertility counseling544App. 1Qualification guidelines for mental health professionals in reproductive medicine559App. 2International comparison of standards/guidelines for infertility counselors561App. 3Comprehensive psychosocial history for infertility (CPHI)563App. 4Psychological fertility-related questionnaires565App. 5Recommended guidelines for the screening and counseling of oocyte donors569App. 6Psychological guidelines for embryo donation572App. 7Psychological guidelines for evaluation and counseling of gestational carriers and intended parents574App. 8Release of information example579App. 9Informed consent : pre-psychological counseling and/or evaluation example581App. 10Informed consent : proceeding with fertility treatments : post-MHP consultation/evaluation example583App. 11Embryo donor consents : consent of couple to donate frozen embryos example585App. 12Embryo recipients' consents : consent to receive thawed donated embryos example588
