The treatment
approach toward the psychopathology is to adopt a stance of relentless kindness, gentleness, understanding, and a relaxed - pleasant
emotional tone within the simultaneous context of directly and steadfastly challenging the child's expressions of narcissistic and borderline psychopathology (
i.e., entitlement, a haughty and arrogant attitude of contempt, an absence of empathy, polarized black - and - white thinking,
emotional tirades of verbal abuse, etc.).
Broadening our
approach to understanding adaptive coping and management of
emotional challenges may be of particular relevance to the development of psychological support for this patient group because of the uncertain outcome (
i.e. whether resolution will ever be achieved through parenthood) and given the evidence that some couples manage to find positive outcomes in a traditionally negative infertility experience.