BookK. Marieke Paarlberg, Harry B.M. van de Wiel, editors.
Summary: This book will assist the reader by providing individually tailored, high-quality bio-psycho-social care to patients with a wide range of problems within the fields of obstetrics, gynecology, fertility, oncology, and sexology. Each chapter addresses a particular theme, issue, or situation in a problem-oriented and case-based manner that emphasizes the differences between routine and bio-psycho-social care. Relevant facts and figures are presented, advice is provided regarding the medical, psychological, and caring process, and contextual aspects are discussed. The book offers practical tips and actions within the bio-psycho-social approach, and highlights important do?s and don?ts. To avoid a strict somatic thinking pattern, the importance of communication, multidisciplinary collaboration, and creation of a working alliance with the patient is emphasized. The book follows a consistent format, designed to meet the needs of challenged clinicians.
Contents:
Part I: Obstetrics, gynecology, fertility and sexology. Chapter 1. A pregnant woman afraid of to deliver: How to manage childbirth anxiety
Chapter 2. A woman afraid of becoming pregnant again: Posttraumatic stress disorder following childbirth
Chapter 3. A woman who cannot enjoy her pregnancy: Depression in pregnancy and puerperium
Chapter 4. New mothers with disturbing thoughts: Treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder and of psychosis in postpartum
Chapter 5. A woman with a positive prenatal test on trisomy 21: Counseling in prenatal diagnosis
Chapter 6. Parents who lost their baby: Guiding the mourning process in stillbirths and pregnancy terminations
Chapter 7. A pregnant woman who could not stop drinking: Management of alcohol abuse during pregnancy
Chapter 8. A young woman asking for labia reduction surgery: A plea for "vulvar literacy"
Chapter 9. A woman struggling for control: How to manage severe eating disorders
Chapter 10. A woman with inexplicable mood swings: Patient management of premenstrual syndrome
Chapter 11. A woman who suffers always and forever: Management of chronic pelvic pain
Chapter 12. A woman who has been cut: Female genital mutilation from a global perspective
Chapter 13. A woman with stress incontinence: Urogenital complaints and psychosexual consequences
Chapter 14. A couple who cannot conceive: Coping with infertility
Chapter 15. A young woman facing cancer treatment: Shared decision-making in fertility preservation
Chapter 16. A couple who considers artificial reproductive techniques: Psychosocially informed care in reproductive medicine
Chapter 17. A woman who never could have coitus: Treatment of lifelong vaginismus
Chapter 18. A woman with coital pain: New perspectives on provoked vestibulodynia
Chapter 19. A woman with changing vulvar anatomy: Sexuality in women with lichen sclerosus
Chapter 20. A woman complaining of lack of sexual desire: Sexological counseling
Part 2. Fundamental introduction to the concepts of clinical roles, the meta-competences, and POG competency profiles. Chapter 21. A theoretical and empirical study of the core of the psychosomatic approach to obstetrics and gynecology: Meta-competences, clinical roles, and POG competency profiles
Part 3. Clinical roles and meta-competences: The building blocks of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology
Chapter 22. Introduction
Chapter 23. History: A historical perspective on patient education in clinical practice and in medical education
Chapter 24. Scholar: A scholar who cannot see the woods for the trees: The biosocial model as the scientific basis for the psychosomatic approach
Chapter 25. Health advocate: An obstetrician in doubt--coping with ethical dilemmas and moral decisions
Chapter 26. Communicator: The gynecologist who could not convince his patients
Chapter 27. Collaborator: A midwife who had a conflict with an obstetrician--how to transform "contact tics" into "co tactics"
Chapter 28. Professional: A sexologist who overstepped the mark--how to handle the therapeutic relationship in psychosocial care
Chapter 29. Leader: A proof of leadership, dealing with and learning from work-related psychotrauma
Chapter 30. Medical expert: The resident who passed the ultimate test--the integration of roles during the gynecological examination.