"This second edition provides mental health professionals with new tools to understand and treat patients suffering from infertility or pregnancy loss"--"This second edition provides mental health professionals with tools to treat patients who suffer from infertility or pregnancy loss, as well as new guidelines for processing their own reproductive traumas. A unifying theme for all would-be parents dealing with infertility or pregnancy loss is the reproductive story: the conscious and unconscious hopes, dreams, and assumptions they have about parenthood. For individuals and couples experiencing reproductive trauma, their ideal future has fallen apart, leaving them bereft and hopeless. This book focuses on how helping professionals can work with patients reproductive stories to help them grieve, cope, and heal. Additionally, it underscores challenges that clinicians endure in their own reproductive stories and their impact on therapy. With updates in research and new case examples, this edition has been expanded to offer a more holistic understanding of reproductive trauma, including expanded coverage of LGBTQ+ parents and their unique needs and experiences. It also reviews advances in reproductive technology-including cryopreservation, in vitro fertilization, and genetic testing-and considers how social and cultural factors influence parents reproductive stories"--.