UID:
almafu_9960943611002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781108877664
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1108877664
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9781108875431
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1108875432
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9781108870641
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1108870643
Inhalt:
The contexts for becoming a parent are ever-changing, bringing new opportunities and new challenges. Becoming a Parent examines the transition to parenthood from diverse perspectives - it is about becoming, rather than being a parent. Drawing on a large body of theory and research, the book explores universal psychological journeys as well as the specific challenges faced by those whose pathways to parenthood are non-traditional or medically complicated. It also examines the unprecedented reproductive choices in contemporary society and provides a comprehensive overview of the personal and social impact of reproductive technologies. Pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood (the so-called 'fourth trimester') are discussed in detail and illustrated with case anecdotes and personal stories of people with 'high-risk' pregnancies, fathers as well as mothers, adoptive parents, and LGBTQ as well as heterosexual adults. It concludes with social and policy initiatives that can better support positive adaptation during this crucial life transition.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Nov 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Chapter 1 Contemplating Parenthood: Why Children? -- Trends in Childbearing Choices -- Fertility Control -- Contraception -- Unintended Pregnancies -- Infertility -- Individual Differences in Desire for a Child -- Biological Perspectives -- Reproductive Desires: Baby Lust? -- Psychological Perspectives: Rational Decision Making? -- Childbearing Decisions: Existential Meaning and Cost-Benefit Analyses -- Social and Cultural Perspectives -- Pronatalist Social Norms -- Demographic Influences -- Childless or Childfree? -- Delayed Childbearing and Involuntary Childlessness -- Choosing a Childfree Life -- Becoming a Parent: Contemporary Contexts and Challenges -- Chapter 2 Reproductive Technologies -- Milestones in Reproductive Technologies -- Third Party Reproduction -- Biological, Psychological, and Social Impact of Reproductive Technology -- Physical Consequences -- Psychological Consequences -- Success Rates and Treatment Failure -- Deciding to Stop Treatment -- Social Consequences -- The Couple Relationship -- Lifestyle Implications -- Cultural, Religious, and Economic Barriers -- Windows on the Womb: Imaging, Screening, and Diagnostic Testing -- Ultrasound -- Risk Screening and Diagnostic Testing -- Non-invasive Pregnancy Screening Tests in the First Trimester -- The First Trimester Combined Test -- Cell Free DNA Technology (cfDNA) -- Invasive Diagnostic Tests -- Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) -- Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) -- Amniocentesis -- Finding Out the Sex of the Foetus -- Impact of Antenatal Screening and Diagnostic Testing -- Biological Impact -- Psychological Impact -- Psychological Impact of Ultrasound -- Social Impact -- Knowing the Sex of the Foetus.
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Benefits of Reproductive Technologies and Ongoing Controversies -- Impact on Parenting and Offspring -- Multiple Births: Perinatal Health -- Surplus Frozen Embryos -- Costs, Equity of Access, and Commercial Exploitation -- The Egg Freezing Debate -- The Commodification of Life? -- Designer Babies: A 'Slippery Slope'? -- Sex Selection and Gendercide -- The Technological Imperative -- New Frontiers and New Challenges -- Chapter 3 Becoming a Mother -- A Developmental Perspective on Becoming a Mother -- Psychoanalytic Theory: Developmental Tasks of Pregnancy -- Adjusting to the Biological Changes of Pregnancy -- Psychosocial Challenges: Taking on a Maternal Identity -- Social Constructions of Motherhood -- Developing a Relationship with the Unborn Baby -- Maternal-Foetal Attachment. -- Social Challenges: Renegotiating Relationships -- Challenging Contexts for Becoming a Mother -- Biological and Social Clocks: 'Off-Time' Pregnancies -- Becoming a Mother as a Teenager -- Biological Challenges -- Psychological Challenges -- Social Challenges -- Older First-Time Mothers -- Biological Challenges -- Psychological Challenges -- Social Challenges -- Becoming a Mother: Challenges for Women with a Disability -- Alternative Pathways -- Becoming a Mother as a Single Woman -- Unintended Pregnancies -- Planning to Become a Parent Alone -- Wellbeing during Pregnancy: Positive Adaptation and Mental Health -- Perinatal Distress -- Mood Disturbances: Perinatal Depression and Anxiety -- Different Orientations to Motherhood -- Summary Comments -- Chapter 4 Becoming a Father -- Theoretical Perspectives on Becoming a Father -- Traditional Psychoanalytic Theory on Fathering -- Attachment Theory and Fathering -- Social Constructions of Fatherhood -- A Developmental Perspective -- Coming to Terms with the Biological Reality of the Pregnancy -- Taking on a Paternal Identity.
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Developing a Relationship with the Unborn Baby -- Paternal Foetal Attachment -- Two Becomes Three: Renegotiating the Couple Relationship -- Challenging Contexts for Becoming a Father -- The Timing of Fatherhood -- Teenage and Young Fathers -- Older First-Time Fathers -- Wellbeing and Mental Health -- Chapter 5 High-Stakes Pregnancies: The Impact of Infertility, Risk, and Loss -- Tentative Pregnancies -- Pregnancy-Focused Anxiety -- Medical Risk in Pregnancy -- Twin Pregnancies -- Pregnancy after Infertility and ART Conception -- Replacing an Infertile Identity with a Maternal Identity -- Pregnancy-Focused Anxiety and Foetal Attachment -- Hassles and Uplifts of Pregnancy -- Pregnancy after Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis -- 'Normal' and 'Special' Pregnancies -- Becoming a Parent after Pregnancy or Perinatal Loss -- Losing a Baby at Birth -- Biological Challenges: 'My Body Has Failed' -- Psychological Challenges -- 1 Violated Expectations -- 2 Identity Challenges -- 3 Grief and Complicated Mourning -- 4 The Partner Relationship: Asynchronous Grieving -- Social Challenges -- Individualised Support for Parents after Perinatal Death -- The Subsequent Pregnancy after Stillbirth -- Terminations for Foetal Abnormality -- Adverse Findings after Amniocentesis -- The Termination and Birth Process -- Miscarriage -- Recurrent Miscarriages -- Miscarriage after Infertility and Conception through ART -- Summary Comments -- Chapter 6 Alternative Pathways: Becoming a Parent through Reproductive Donation or Adoption -- Biological Connections: Genetics and Gestation -- Genetic Relatedness: Meanings and Alternatives -- Gestational Relatedness -- Psychological Challenges: Integrating a Parental Identity -- Developing a Relationship with the Expected Child -- Social Challenges -- Judgement and Stigma -- Secrecy and Disclosure.
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Couple Relationships and Third-Party Donors and Surrogates -- Relationships with Extended Family -- Relationships with Donors, Surrogates, Birth Parents -- Conception using Donated Sperm, Eggs, or Embryos -- Becoming a Parent through Donor Insemination (DI) -- Heterosexual Couples -- Single Mothers by Choice -- Becoming a Parent through Egg Donation -- Developing a Maternal Identity and Relationship with the Unborn Baby -- Becoming a Parent through Embryo Donation -- Becoming a Parent through Surrogacy -- Donor/Recipient Relationships: Indebtedness and the 'Gift Dynamic' -- LGBTQ Parents -- Two Mothers: Becoming Parents as a Lesbian Couple -- Birth Mothers and Co-Mothers: Complexities of Maternal Identity -- The 'Co-Mother' -- Psychological and Social Adjustment -- Two Fathers: Becoming Parents as a Gay Couple -- Taking on a Paternal Identity -- Becoming Gay Fathers through Surrogacy -- Which Father will be Genetically Related? -- Contact with the Surrogate -- Psychological and Social Adjustment -- Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Parents -- The Transition to Parenthood for Adoptive Parents -- Who Adopts? -- The Process of Becoming a Parent through Adoption: Women's Experiences -- Same-Sex Parents Adopting: Adoptive Fathers' Perspectives -- Summary Comments -- Chapter 7 Childbirth -- Medical Intervention and the Natural Childbirth Movement -- The Biology of Childbirth -- The Three Stages of Labour -- Common Complications and Medical Interventions during Childbirth -- Elective Induction -- Caesarean Section -- Pain in Childbirth: Medical Approaches -- The Psychology of Childbirth -- Psychological Approaches to Managing Fear and Pain -- Fear of Childbirth -- Psychoprophylactic Approaches: 'Doing the Breathing' -- Mindfulness Approaches -- A Sense of Control? -- Psychoeducation: Feeling Prepared -- Birth Plans -- Caesarean Birth on Maternal Request.
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Individual Differences in Orientation to Childbirth -- The Social Context for Childbirth -- Men and Childbirth: The Experience and Contribution of the Father -- Setting and Cultural Context for Childbirth -- Early Contact with the Baby: 'Doing the Bonding' -- Having a Premature Baby -- Emotional and Physical Health around Childbirth -- Chapter 8 The Fourth Trimester -- Biological Challenges -- Recovery from Childbirth -- Early Breastfeeding -- Neurological and Hormonal Changes that Support Caregiving -- Understanding the Young Infant: A Developmental Perspective -- Individual Differences: Infant Temperament -- Negative Labels and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies -- 'Orchid Children' -- Getting to Know the Baby -- Empathy, Attunement, and Sensitive Parenting -- Mutual Regulation: A Relational Perspective -- Crying, Settling, and Sleep -- Crying -- Persistent Inconsolable Crying -- Night Waking and Broken Sleep -- Strategies to Manage Crying, Settling, and Sleep Problems -- Conflicting Advice -- Soothing Techniques -- Sleep and Crying Training Programmes -- Co-Sleeping -- Summary Comments -- Psychological Challenges: A New Identity -- The Maternal Identity: Fusion or Autonomy? -- Reconciling the Losses -- Integrating a Paternal Identity -- Parental Identity: Summary Comments -- The Social and Cultural Context for Early Parenting -- The Couple Relationship -- The 'Baby' in the Room: Two Become Three -- Social Connection and Support -- A Cross-Cultural Perspective: The First 100 Days -- Becoming a Parent in the Context of Disability -- Psychological Wellbeing in the Fourth Trimester -- Positive Emotional Responses to Becoming a Parent -- Postnatal Distress: Depression, Anxiety, and Parenting Stress -- Under-Recognition or Over-Pathologising Motherhood? -- Postnatal Mood Problems in Fathers -- Who is Vulnerable? -- The Importance of Context and Social Capital.
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Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781108799287
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1108799280
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781108836050
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1108836054
Sprache:
Englisch
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