Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians
678 pages | Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 16, 2006) | ISBN: 052185363X | PDF | 7.7 Mb

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.