Research Catalog

Title

Fertility counselling / Sue Mack and Julie Tucker.

Author

Mack, Sue.

Publication

London : Baillière Tindall in association with the RCN, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50069653
• Tucker, Julie.

Description

ix, 189 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• Key features include information on physical and psychological factors relating to fertility and infertility; covers all practical and theoretical aspects of counselling in this field - from preconception issues to natural and assisted pregnancy, adoption, or childlessness; clearly and sensitively written by expert authors, and glossary of terms and appendix of useful addresses. Fertility Counselling will prove invaluable to all those who counsel people with fertility problems.
• This very holistic book addresses the expressed needs of individuals with every type of fertility problem, with factual yet sensitive counselling techniques and approaches.

Subjects

• Humans > Infertility > Therapy > Counselling
• Infertility > therapy
• Infertility > Patients > Counseling of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Overview of Current Practice in the UK and Other Countries -- Ch. 2. The Causes, Diagnosis and Medical Treatment of Infertility -- Ch. 3. The Psychological Experience and Effects of Infertility -- Ch. 4. Counselling Theories and Skills -- Ch. 5. Who Can Be the Counsellor? -- Ch. 6. What the Client Wants -- Ch. 7. Counselling for the Experience of Infertility.

ISBN

0702019771 (pbk)

LCCN

gb 96079250

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries