Part One: Preparing the Therapist
1. Pioneering a New Model of Treatment
2. Learning the Essential Skills of Infertility Counseling
Part Two: Understanding the Client Experience with Infertility
3. Recognizing the Impact of Infertility
4. Identifying Specific Responses to Infertility
Part Three: Strategies for Treatment
5. Coping with Reproductive Loss
6. Dealing with Sexuality and Infertility
7. Considering Alternatives to Biological Parenting
8. Coping with Recurring Grief and Doubt
9. Regaining a Healthy Identity
Part Four: Session Plans
Assessment, Grief, Decision-Making, Special Concerns, Infertility and Identity, Self-Advocacy, Financial Planning, Alternatives to Biological Parenting, Termination
AppAndices: A: Exercises
B: Suggested Reading and Viewing Lists
C: Resources
D: Alternatives to Biological Parenting: Practical Considerations