`A subtitle to this book could well be A Practical Guide, for at last we have an inexpensive, easily readable, well-indexed resource book for all involved in work where fertility issues may arise... the application of counselling models to fertility problems... should open new vistas and provide much food for thought for many working in all branches of women's health services, sexual health, urology and the newly emerging well men clinics. It is refreshing to find a book that seriously addresses couple and male fertility issues, the latter becoming all the more relevant with the increasing awareness of the poor quality of sperm as a factor contributing to infertility and the development of techniques involving single sperm insemination... Jane Read's contribution has eased the task of those working in this challenging area and it should also help many others working in related fields' - Sexual & Marital Therapy `A superb contribution to the field' - Journal of Fertility Counselling
`The author liberally illustrates her way of working with numerous poignant case histories... Useful questions for the counsellor at key moments are highlighted... very useful' - Counselling, the Journal of the British Association for Counselling
`The experience of infertility is one of the most painful events of life and as a result of this the author... forms a framework which she has found useful as a way of understanding the work... I found this extremely helpful, with the mixture of practical and theoretical clearly defined. Diagrams illustrate the different stages and case histories concrete the theories. Also extremely helpful are the lists of suggested questions to enable the counsellor to focus directly with clients at difficult stages... Coming from a background of marital and relationship counselling, I found this book extremely helpful and would recommend it for much more than its title... I would also see it as an excellent referral book to have in the library' - [ac]Eisteach, The Journal of the Irish Association for Counselling and Therapy
`Comprehensive and readable... I recommend this book to any professional involved in any way with human fertility. It covers the issues involved and the skills required in concise, clear and readable prose, and its list of references provides an excellent bibliography' - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
`[In the] chapters which discuss donation and counselling donors, there is a liberal use of verbatim material from counselling sessions which I found very helpful [and the] chapter on the couple is particularly useful... This book's content will be relevant to many general practitioners and nurses, as well as to its central readership of counsellors' - Journal of Interprofessional Care
`There is much of theoretical and practical import to practitioners and students in this field... This volume also helpfully includes a glossary of terms; the latest in fertility medical techniques and considerations (including HIV status of donors/recipients); case examples; and resources' - Academic Library Book Review
