Counselling in infertility: Individual, couple and group interventions

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 422-428

  Van den Broeck, Uschi ^a   Emery, Marysa ^b   Wischmann, Tewes ^c   Thorn, Petra ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Psychosomatic and Psychosocial Medicine SAPPM   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Practice for Couple and Family Therapy ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Infertility counselling; Interventions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSULTATION; COUNSELING; EMBRYOLOGY; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUALITY; WORKSHOP;

COUNSELING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SELF-HELP GROUPS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78649756107     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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