کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3971340 1256761 2011 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
CBRC and psychosocial counselling: assessing needs and developing an ethical framework for practice
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی زنان، زایمان و بهداشت زنان
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
CBRC and psychosocial counselling: assessing needs and developing an ethical framework for practice
چکیده انگلیسی

Encountering infertility and involuntary childlessness and undergoing infertility treatment are acknowledged as stressful experiences that impact on individuals’ psychological and emotional health – and for which access to psychosocial counselling by a skilled mental health professional may be beneficial. Evidence of patients’, gamete donors’ and surrogates’ experiences indicates that utilization of infertility treatment in another country may not only exacerbate these psychosocial adversities, but may also pose additional risks to the psychological or physical health of participants, thus further emphasizing the need for competent psychosocial counselling services in cross-border reproductive care. However, this is a largely neglected topic in recent discussions of both CBRC itself and of infertility counselling practice. This paper extends the previous work undertaken by two of the authors to begin to map out practice issues within an ethical framework for counsellors when working with clients, donors, surrogates, individuals conceived following infertility treatment and existing children in clients’, donor’s and surrogates’ families where cross-border reproductive treatment is considered or undertaken.Encountering infertility and involuntary childlessness and undergoing infertility treatment are acknowledged as stressful experiences that impact individuals’ psychological and emotional health – and for which access to psychosocial counselling by a skilled mental health professional may be beneficial. Evidence of patients’, gamete donors’ and surrogates’ experiences indicates that utilization of infertility treatment in another country may not only exacerbate these psychosocial adversities, but may also pose additional risks to the psychological or physical health of participants, thus further emphasizing the need for competent psychosocial counselling services in cross-border reproductive care (CBRC). However, this is a largely neglected topic in recent discussions of both CBRC itself and of infertility counselling practice. This paper extends the previous work undertaken by two of the authors to begin to map out practice issues within an ethical framework for counsellors when working with clients, donors and surrogates where cross-border treatment is considered or undertaken.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Reproductive BioMedicine Online - Volume 23, Issue 5, November 2011, Pages 642–651
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