ABSTRACT
Working with Infertility and Grief: A Practical Guide for Helping Professionals explores issues of grief, including disenfranchised grief and chronic sorrow, related to infertility and reproductive loss. Out of the small handful of books related to this topic, this is the first of its kind geared toward equipping helping professionals who assist those grieving unrecognized losses. Written through the lens of the literary framework of The Hero’s Journey, this comprehensive practitioner guide directly targets mental health professionals working with clients, supervisees, or students who have experienced infertility, miscarriage, or death of an infant. This book is also for those who experienced it themselves. Readers will learn more about the crisis of infertility and reproductive loss, gain insight into the experience of those suffering, and acquire practical tools and strategies for helping and healing. This text is broad enough to be integrated into a course for a graduate program and specific enough to serve as a shelf reference for those in practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|55 pages
The Biopsychosocial Crisis of Infertility
chapter Chapter Three|15 pages
Psychological Impacts of Infertility
part Two|73 pages
Who Suffers from Infertility?
chapter Chapter Six|15 pages
Non-Age-Related Infertility
chapter Chapter Nine|12 pages
Personal Choices in Growing a Nontraditional Family
chapter Chapter Ten|15 pages
Multicultural Considerations
part Three|58 pages
Strategies and Suggestions for the Helping Professional