Psychological Challenges in Obstetrics and Gynecology

This book empowers the obstetrician-gynecologist to coordinate and communicate effectively with all parties and health workers involved in psychological care. It provides information not typically covered in training: communication skills, coping and adjustment in pregnancy, and communicating with cancer patients.

By providing ample background knowledge, this book empowers the obstetrician-gynecologist to be in the key coordinating role, and to communicate effectively with all parties and health workers involved in psychological care. It meets the needs of doctors that are not typically covered by their training, for example communication skills, coping and adjustment in pregnancy, and communicating with cancer patients. Individual chapters show how to use the consultation to maximum benefit for both patient and doctor. Easy-to-read with stand-alone chapters, this book covers key aspects of OB/GYN, and addresses areas not covered in other texts. It is relevant to all stages of O & G practice - from trainees to consultants, and will even appeal to some lay readers. This book offers topics in psychological care to trainees and specialist in O & G, helps them understand the emotional problems their patients face, and shows them how to undertake psychological care.

Easy-to-read format Demystifies the psychological aspects of the subject, making it easier to integrate psychological aspects into practice A more holistic approach improves the care for women Enables the doctor to make consultations more effective despite the limitations of time

Klappentext

The discipline of obstetrics and gynecology is changing rapidly. It is changing in respect of science and technology (IVF, minimally invasive surgery) and of ethics (termination, genetics, and reproductive technology). The training for the young specialist adapts to these changes. Sadly, however, the old fashioned division of mind from body continues. Words like "holistic" and "psychosomatic" are dismissed, and those responsible for training in the UK persist in refusing to accommodate psychological modules in the training process. This book attempts to address and redress this imbalance. Failure to understand the psychological aspects of a patients presentation leave the doctor feeling vulnerable and inadequate, searching for the right thing to say, avoiding that patient in future with subsequent poor care.

This book, by providing the background knowledge, empowers the obstetrician/gynecologist to be in the key coordinating role, and to communicate effectively with all parties and other health workers who may need to be involved in psychological care. This book meets the needs of doctors that are not covered by their training (e.g. a chapter on "Communication Skills. What you can do in 15 minutes", chapter on "Coping and Adjustment in Pregnancy": Giving Babies a Better Start, and chapter on "Communicating with Cancer Patients")

Chapters are written by experts in widely differing areas, and show how to use the consultation to maximum benefit for the patient and doctor. Easy-to-read with stand-alone chapters, this book covers key aspects of obstetrics and gynecology, and addresses areas that are not covered in other texts. The book is relevant to all stages of obstetric and gynecological practice - from trainees to consultants (and some lay interest).

Inhalt
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.