Becoming a Parent - Contemporary Contexts Challenges During Transition to Parenthood

Provides an evidence-based overview of the challenges of becoming a parent in a broad range of contemporary contexts.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Contemplating parenthood: why children?; 2. Reproductive technologies; 3. Becoming a mother; 4. Becoming a father; 5. High stakes pregnancies: the impact of infertility, risk, and loss; 6. Alternative pathways: becoming a parent through reproductive donation, or adoption; 7. Childbirth; 8. The 4th trimester; 9. The way forward: clinical, social, and policy initiatives to support new parents.

About the author

Catherine McMahon is Honorary Professor at the School of Psychological Sciences in Macquarie University, Australia. Her research focuses on psychological adaptation during the transition to parenthood, and she has published extensively on perinatal mood disorders, infertility and assisted conception, and the parent-infant relationship. Her current collaborative work with community-based services aims to build an evidence base for programs to support parenting in the early years.

Summary

An accessible volume for scholars, practitioners, and trainees working with expectant or hopeful parents, as well as new parents themselves. It provides an evidence-based, 'big picture' overview of the joys and challenges of the transition to parenthood in a broad range of contemporary contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine McMahon, Catherine (Macquarie University Mcmahon, Catherine A. McMahon, Catherine A. (Macquarie University Mcmahon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108799287
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79928-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Family psychology, Clinical psychology, Health psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Gynaecology & obstetrics