Human Reproduction, Vol. 16, No. 6, 1301-1304,
June 2001
© 2001 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
Guidelines for counselling in infertility: outline version
1 School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, 3 Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Academic Hospital, Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels, Belgium, 4 Midland Fertility Services, Birmingham, UK, 5 University Frauenklinik, Basel, Switzerland, 6 Centre for Reproductive Medicine, University of Bristol, UK, 7 Department of Social Work, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8 Service de Psychiatrie de Liaison and Unité de Médecine de la Reproduction, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, 9 Servicio de Medicina Psicosomatica, Instituto Universitario Dexeus, Barcelona, Spain, 10 Fertilitetscentrum, Carlanderska sjukhemmet, Göteberg, Sweden, 11 University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, 12 Department of Medical Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Jena, Germany, 13 Department of Social Work, Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, 14 Department of Medical Psychology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg and 15 DRK Frauenklinik, Berlin, Germany
The Guidelines for Counselling in Infertility describe the purpose, objectives, typical issues and communication skills involved in providing psychosocial care to individuals using fertility services. The Guidelines are presented in six sections. The first section describes how infertility consultations differ from other medical consultations in obstetrics and gynaecology, whereas the second section addresses fundamental issues in counselling, such as what is counselling in infertility, who should counsel and who is likely to need counselling. Section 3 focuses on how to integrate patient-centred care and counselling into routine medical treatment and section 4 highlights some of the special situations which can provoke the need for counselling (e.g. facing the end of treatment, sexual problems). Section 5 deals exclusively with third party reproduction and the psychosocial implications of gamete donation, surrogacy and adoption for heterosexual and gay couples and single women without partners. The final section of the Guidelines is concerned with psychosocial services that can be used to supplement counselling services in fertility clinics: written psychosocial information, telephone counselling, self-help groups and professionally facilitated group work. This paper summarizes the different sections of the Guidelines and describes how to obtain the complete text of the Guidelines for Counselling in Infertility.
Key words: counselling/guidelines/infertility/psychology
16 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Boivin{at}cardiff.ac.uk
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