Moreover, this volume is an important contribution to the literature on fertility, women's health issues, and health psychology in general, all topics with which I have been closely involved over the past two decades.

This volume explores the varied circumstances and experiences that give rise to chronic stress, as well as the ways in which individuals adapt to and accommodate them.

This exceptional guide also explores options like IVF, adoption, and surrogacy, helping couples navigate their unique fertility journey, as well as providing strategies for managing the stress to a relationship that infertility issues can ...

The overall focus of this book is the ways humans deal with life conditions, with destiny, uncertainty and misfortune - how we try to control the risks of living through medicines, technologies and magic.

This volume explores the transition to parenthood from a holistic developmental approach, relating to barriers such as fertility problems and traumatic childbirth, as well as pathways such as positive experiences of pregnancy and childbirth ...

This edition also includes extensive appendixes of clinical tools useful to the clinician, including an Internet database of resources and an extensive glossary of terminology.

Features a directory of primarily British Web sites for patients focusing on infertility, compiled as part of the Patient UK online health resource.

This edited text on qualitative research methods in health is aimed at a multi-professional, multi-disciplinary audience.

... coping processes and adjustment to infertility', in A. L. Stanton and C. Dunkel-Schetter (eds) Infertility Perspectives from Stress and Coping Research, New York: Plenum Press. Stanton, A. L. and Dunkel-Schetter, C. (1991) ...