Infertility Counseling
A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians

Table of Contents

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.

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