Infertility Counseling

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.