Full Description
This book empowers the obstetrician-gynecologist to play a key coordinating role, and to communicate effectively with all parties and health workers involved in psychological care. It provides information not typically covered by their training: communication skills, coping and adjustment in pregnancy, and communicating with cancer patients. Easy-to-read with stand-alone chapters, this book covers key aspects of OB/GYN, and addresses areas not covered elsewhere. The book offers topics in psychological care to trainees and specialists in O & G, helps them understand the emotional problems their patients face, and shows them how to undertake psychological care.
Contents
Background for the Study of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology.- Teaching Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology.- The Vaginal Examination.- Communication Skills What You Can Do in 15 Minutes.- Psychoanalysis for Emergencies: A Toolkit for Trainees.- Sexuality.- Disability, Normality, and Difference.- Cross-Cultural Issues in Gynecology and Obstetrics.- The Family.- Research in Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology.- Obstetrics.- Coping and Adjustment in Pregnancy: Giving Babies a Better Start.- Psychosocial Aspects of Prenatal Diagnosis: The Challenges for Doctors and Patients.- Premature Labor and the Premature Baby: Psychological and Social Consequences.- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- Antenatal and Postnatal Depression.- Maternal Suicide.- Tokophobia Tokophobia: A Profound Dread and Avoidance of Childbirth (When Pathological Fear Effects the Consultation).- Psychological Aspects of Stillbirth.- The Next Pregnancy After Stillbirth.- Gynecology.- Health Care and Young People: A Challenge.- Unwanted Pregnancy.- Early Pregnancy Loss.- A Biopsychosocial Approach to Premenstrual Problems.- Infertility: A Psychosocial Viewpoint Infertility: A Psychosocial Viewpoint.- Sexual Violence.- Chronic Pelvic Pain.- Communicating with Cancer Patients.- Psychosocial Aspects of the Menopause Psychosocial Aspects of the Menopause.
