Bio-Psycho-Social Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Competency-Oriented Approach

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Woman Afraid to Deliver: How to Manage Childbirth Anxiety....Pages 3-31
A Woman Afraid of Becoming Pregnant Again: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following Childbirth....Pages 33-49
A Woman Who Cannot Enjoy Her Pregnancy: Depression in Pregnancy and Puerperium....Pages 51-64
New Mothers with Disturbing Thoughts: Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and of Psychosis in Postpartum....Pages 65-84
A Woman with a Positive Prenatal Test on Trisomy 21: Counseling in Prenatal Diagnosis....Pages 85-106
Parents Who Lost Their Baby: Guiding the Mourning Process in Stillbirths and Pregnancy Terminations....Pages 107-125
A Pregnant Woman Who Could Not Stop Drinking: Management of Alcohol Abuse in Pregnancy....Pages 127-144
A Young Woman Asking for Labia Reduction Surgery: A Plea for “Vulvar Literacy”....Pages 145-163
A Woman Struggling for Control: How to Manage Severe Eating Disorders....Pages 165-181
A Woman with Inexplicable Mood Swings: Patient Management of Premenstrual Syndrome....Pages 183-198
A Woman Who Suffers Always and Forever: Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain....Pages 199-215
A Woman Who Has Been Cut: Female Genital Mutilation from a Global Perspective....Pages 217-233
A Woman with Stress Incontinence: Urogenital Complaints and Psychosexual Consequences....Pages 235-248
A Couple Who Cannot Conceive: Coping with Infertility....Pages 249-261
A Young Woman Facing Cancer Treatment: Shared Decision-Making in Fertility Preservation....Pages 263-281
A Couple Who Considers Artificial Reproductive Techniques: Psychosocially Informed Care in Reproductive Medicine....Pages 283-295
A Woman Who Never Could Have Coitus: Treatment of Lifelong Vaginismus....Pages 297-309
A Woman with Coital Pain: New Perspectives on Provoked Vestibulodynia....Pages 311-328
A Woman with Changing Vulvar Anatomy: Sexuality in Women with Lichen Sclerosus....Pages 329-341
A Woman Complaining of Lack of Sexual Desire: Sexological Counseling....Pages 343-363
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A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Core of the Psychosomatic Approach to Obstetrics and Gynecology: Meta-Competences, Clinical Roles, and POG Competency Profiles....Pages 367-391
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Introduction....Pages 395-397
History: A Historical Perspective on Patient Education in Clinical Practice and in Medical Education....Pages 399-415
Scholar: A Scholar Who Cannot See the Woods for the Trees: The Biopsychosocial Model as the Scientific Basis for the Psychosomatic Approach....Pages 417-431
Health Advocate: An Obstetrician in Doubt—Coping with Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Decisions....Pages 433-454
Communicator: The Gynecologist Who Could Not Convince His Patients....Pages 455-469
Collaborator: A Midwife Who Had a Conflict with an Obstetrician—How to Transform “Contact Tics” into “Co Tactics”....Pages 471-478
Professional: A Sexologist Who Overstepped the Mark—How to Handle the Therapeutic Relationship in Psychosocial Care....Pages 479-502
Leader: A Proof of Leadership, Dealing with and Learning from Work-Related Psychotrauma....Pages 503-523
Medical Expert: The Resident Who Passed the Ultimate Test—The Integration of Roles During the Gynecological Examination....Pages 525-544