Full Description
This second edition gives mental health professionals the tools they need to treat patients who suffer from infertility or pregnancy loss, as well as new guidance for processing their own reproductive traumas.
Prospective parents who experience infertility or pregnancy loss deal with a host of physical and psychological consequences. For many individuals and couples experiencing reproductive trauma, their ideal future has fallen apart, leaving them bereft and hopeless. Author Janet Jaffe demonstrates how helping professionals can work with patients amp rsquo reproductive stories to help them grieve, cope, and heal while underscoring how clinicians amp rsquo own reproductive stories impact their lives and their therapeutic work.
With updates in research and new, more diverse case examples, this edition has been expanded to offer a more holistic understanding of reproductive trauma, including coverage of LGBTQ parents and their unique needs and experiences. It also reviews advances in reproductive technology and their ethical implications-including cryopreservation, third-party reproduction, and genetic testing-as well as how social and cultural factors influence parents amp rsquo reproductive stories.
Contents
Introduction: The Past, Present, and Future of Reproductive Challenges and Opportunities
Acknowledgements
Part I. The Patient's Viewpoint
Chapter 1. The Reproductive Story: Parents' Possible Selves and How Things Should Have Been
Chapter 2. Developments in Reproductive Technology: Ethical Concerns and Emotional Constants
Chapter 3. Patients' Reproductive Trauma Experiences: Our World Is Falling Apart
Chapter 4. Grieving an Unborn Child: Pain and Hope
Chapter 5. Helping Patients Cope With Reproductive Loss: Treatment Options
Chapter 6. Who Is the Patient? Third-Party Reproduction and Adoption
Chapter 7. Adjuncts to Reproductive Psychotherapy
Chapter 8. From Reproductive Trauma to Growth: Healing and Change
Part II. The Provider's Viewpoint
Chapter 9. What Patients Want to Know About Reproductive Mental Health Providers
Chapter . The Therapist's Reproductive Story
Chapter 1. The Pregnant Therapist and the Reproductive Patient
Chapter 2. Reproductive Therapist Self-Care: Taking Care of Ourselves While Taking Care of Others
Epilogue: Giving Voice to Patients' and Therapists' Reproductive Stories
References
Index
About the Author
