Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians

by Sharon N. Covington, Linda Hammer Burns (Editor)

This softcover edition of Burns and Covington's comprehensive handbook was developed especially for physicians and mental health professionals. It represents new kind of clinical textbook, necessitated by today's advancing reproductive technologies and by the complexity of issues facing infertile couples. The book contains nine 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. The editors and contributors all have extensive clinical, research, and educational experience in reproductive medicine and the psychological aspects of infertility.

648 pages, Hardcover

First published September 15, 1998