Whether you’re a volunteer at a pregnancy center, a counselor, or simply a family member or friend who knows a pregnant woman in crisis, Pregnancy Crisis Intervention examines what a pregnancy crisis is and will help you know with confidence what to do and say when it matters most. After reading this book, you will understand: The challenges involved in a pregnancy-related crisisHow to guide someone’s thinking with emotional awareness and accurate informationThe principle of informed consent and the legal and medical justification for talking about abortion with honestyThe phrases of crisis intervention from assessment to resolutionThe skills and compassion needed to help both the women and her baby It also includes firsthand stories, further insights, and additional perspectives from women in crisis and leaders within the field of pregnancy crisis intervention.

Ending a relationship is one of the most difficult journeys in life and it can be a bewildering and confusing time. It can also be very expensive. There are so many different aspects to consider. Other books only address one or two aspects of this process but Break Up, Don’t Crack Up takes a holistic approach, believing all angles are interrelated, and addresses all aspects: legal, practical, financial, emotional and parenting. Break Up, Don’t Crack Up explains alternative routes such as alternative dispute resolution and mediation and helps readers to negotiate the Irish legal system with regard to divorce and separation. It also addresses difficult issues such as domestic violence, child abuse, parental child abduction and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. The book helps readers to develop a strategic plan on how to approach their separation, saving them time, money and heartache. It is a practical, solutions-focused approach to all aspects of separation and is an invaluable aid for all those going through this life-altering journey.

Abortion Practice is the only single-author medical textbook concerning abortion. It begins with a comprehensive view in its first chapter of The Epidemiologic Foundations of Abortion Practice. This chapter is a unique in the medical literature in presenting a public health view of pregnancy and abortion. Pregnancy is seen as a biocultural adaptation to the survival needs of the human species, and the management of pregnancy as a biocultural phenomenon that is determined by human culture. In many cultures, pregnancy is defined as a life-threatening illness, but in western culture, pregnancy is defined as normal. This reflects the role of women in western society and it affects the kinds of medical and surgical management of pregnancy that are available. Abortion alters the mortality statistics - the risk of death - for women who are pregnant. The remainder of the book provides a framework for modern abortion practice including evaluation of the patient, operative procedures and techniques, postoperative procedures, management of complications, diagnostic evaluation of pregnancy duration and fetal age, long-term risks of abortion, and program evaluation.

The book presents contributions on diverse topics as Parent Support in the Republic of Ireland: An Evaluation of One Model of Intervention; Convergence in the Midst of DivergenceAn Exploration of Feminist Support for and Opposition to Abortion; Relationships and Sexuality Education in the Irish Context: An Analysis of Policy and Programme Implementation; Inner-Country Adoption - Challenging National Identity; Youth Work and Young People's Transitions to the Labour Market in the Republic of Ireland; Social movements, community development and the discourse of national community: an analysis of popular 'progressive' mobilisation in Ireland; Community development: problems of ambiguity and ambivalence; Is there a specific East Central European welfare culture?