Infertility Counseling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521853637)

Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians, second 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, medical counseling issues, 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.

Author: Sharon N. Covington
ISBN-10: 052185363X
ISBN-13: 9780521853637
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2006
Pages: 680
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.96lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.80w x 1.40d