Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians (Hardback)

Thông tin sách: Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians (Hardback) (Hardcover, 648 trang) – CRC Press, 1999. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

Comprehensive handbook on infertility counseling developed especially for physicians and mental health professionals. A new kind of clinical textbook, made necessary by today's rapidly advancing reproductive technologies and by the complexity of issues facing infertile couples. Contains nine main multi-chapter sections that cover the psychological and medical aspects of infertility, assessment, treatment, counseling, third-party reproduction, alternative family building, post-infertility counseling, and the professional practice of infertility counseling. Authors Burns and Covington are founding members and former chairs of the Mental Health Professional Group of The American Society of Reproductive Medicine, and with their contributors have extensive clinical, research, and educational experience in reproductive medicine and the psychological aspects of infertility. "A comprehensive handbook on infertility counseling is timely and urgently needed by clinicians. With the changing climate surrounding infertility services, we may soon find that infertility counseling is mandated by law or recommended by practice guidelines." The Authors.