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Psychological and Medical Perspectives on Fertility Care and Sexual Health

  • 1st Edition - October 21, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Kim Bergman, William D. Petok
  • Language: English

Psychological and Medical Perspectives on Fertility Care and Sexual Health provides the necessary specialized training of sexual dysfunction and sex therapy to those in reprod… Read more

Description

Psychological and Medical Perspectives on Fertility Care and Sexual Health provides the necessary specialized training of sexual dysfunction and sex therapy to those in reproductive medicine. Understanding and knowledge about these sexual dysfunctions is needed for reproductive specialists to identify sexual problems, provide treatment if they are able or make appropriate referrals, and coordinate care for more specialized and specific needs as part of the patients overall reproductive medical management. This must-have reference explores the intimate interface of sexuality and fertility, male and female sexual function, cultural influences on women, Eastern medicine, and more!

Key features

  • Provides the first-of-its-kind book for clinicians that summarizes literature and interventions and brings together the current researchers and thinkers on this topic
  • Explores diverse populations typically left out, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender individuals, women and people of color
  • Presents a treatment dilemma for many health care providers: should one condition be treated before the other or should concurrent services be offered?
  • Identifies common sexual problems/dysfunctions presented by infertility patients
  • Describes interventions for these problems and identifies resources for appropriate treatment of sexual dysfunction

Readership

Clinicians, Mental Health Professionals, Residents, in the field of reproductive medicine. This book could be used in a course to prepare clinicians in training as well as advance level clinicians. In addition, this book can be used as a data base of research on this underrepresented topic

Table of contents

Preface: The Intimate Interface of Sexuality and Fertility. Kim Bergman, PhD and William Petok, PhD

Reproductive Health

1. The Acquisition of Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge. William D. Petok, PhD and Arik V. Marcell, MD, MPH

Sexual Dysfunctions and Infertility

2. Male Infertility: Medical Factors and Emotional Consequences. Vassili Glazyrine MD, Dane Stephens, MD, Emily Wentzell, PhD., Kimberly Wallace-Young, PhD, Ajay Nanja, MD

3. Female Sexual Function and Fertility and Infertility. Elizabeth A Grill,PsyD, Alison J. Meyers, Alice D. Domar, PhD

4. The Impact of Erectile Dysfunction on Infertility and its Treatment. Amir I. Khan, MD, Jennifer Lindelof, MD, Stanton Honig, MD

5. Ejaculatory Dysfunction and Infertility. Daniel N. Watter, EdD.and Kathryn S. K. Hall, PhD

6. Early Menopause: Diagnosis and Management. Tanya Glenn, MD and Amanda N. Kallen, MD

7. Reproductive and Sexual Health Concerns for Cancer Survivors. Jessica Gorman, PhD, MPH and Elizabeth K. Arthur, PhD, APRN-CNP, AOCNP

Special Considerations

8. Lesbians Pursuing Parenthood: Pathways, Challenges, and Best Practices. Marie Hayes, MA.and Julia T. Woodward, PhD

9. Gay Men, as Individuals and as a Community, Overcoming Reproductive Challenges to Have Children. Guy Ringler, MD and Cyd Ziegler

10. Parenting in Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals. Amanda R Schwartz, MD, and Molly B Moravek, MD, MPH

11. Trauma and its Impact on Reproduction and Sexuality. Laura Covington, PhD. MSW, LICSW

12. How the "Medicalization" of Reproduction Takes the Fun Out of the Process. Alice D. Domar PhD, Alison J. Meyers, Elizabeth A. Grill PsyD

13. Unintended Infertility: Labor Markets, Software Workers, and Fertility Decision Making. Sharmila Rudrappa, PhD

14: Eastern Medicine: An Alternative Perspective. Denise Wiesner, LAC

15. Sex, Religion, and Infertility: The Complications of G-d in the Bedroom. Julie Bindeman, PsyD

Looking Forward

16. Thoughts on Education, Reproduction and Sexual Function. Future Research: Direction and Obstacles. Angela Lawson, PhD

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 21, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Kim Bergman

Kim Bergman, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who writes, teaches, and speaks extensively on parenting by choice. She is an owner and senior partner at Growing Generations and created a comprehensive psychological screening, support, and monitoring process for Intended Parents, Surrogates and Donors. She is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, serving as the Outgoing Chair of the LGBTQ Special Interest Group; an incoming board member of the Mental Health Professional Group; the American Psychological Association; the Los Angeles County Psychological Association; the Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association; and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. She is on the national Emeritus board of the Family Equality Council. Dr. Bergman is the author of Your Future Family: The Essential Guide to Assisted Reproduction (Conari Press 2019) and the upcoming children’s book, You Began as a Wish.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Partner, Growing Generations, CA, USA

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William D. Petok

William Petok, PhD, has been in full-time independent practice for over 30 years and he is a Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is a past Chair of the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and is a regular reviewer for Fertility and Sterility and other professional journals. Dr. Petok served for 10 years as a board member of Path 2 Parenthood, formerly the American Fertility Association, and as a member of the Executive Council of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology for 9 years. He has chaired and served as faculty on multiple post-graduate courses that focus on sexuality and assisted reproductive technologies at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s annual meetings.
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

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