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Developing skills for infertility counselling
Basel, Switzerland
29 August 2009
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Every year the Psychology & Counselling Special Interest Group organises a one day course just prior to the start of the Annual Meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). The following includes topics presented and discussed at past or upcoming pre-congress courses:
Amsterdam 2009 - "Counselling in fertility treatment: changing content and measuring effectiveness"
Syllabus (3,4 MB)
Barcelona 2008 - "Psycho-social counselling in fertility treatment"
Syllabus (1,8 MB)
Lyon 2007
L. Hammer-Burns - Psychological counselling in reproductive medicine
L. Schmidt - Social and psychological consequences of ART
O.B. Christiansen - Medical aspects of pregnancy loss and recurring miscarriage
C. Hammond - Emotional aspects of pregnancy loss: the science behind emotions
A. Pinborg - Adverse outcome following vanishing twins
J. Denton - The impact of multiple preterm births
M. Camus - Motherhood beyond reproductive age
Syllabus (14436 KB)
Prague 2006
H. Klonoff-Cohen - How do psychosocial factors impact IVF/GIFT success rates?
T. Wischmann - Psychosocial interventions in infertility J. Boivin How do we assess our effectiveness as practicioners?
F. Rice - Follow-up of children conceived with fertility treatment.
J. Daniluk - Transition to biological childlessness.
P. Thorn - Outcomes for families using donated gametes.
Syllabus (194 KB)
Copenhagen 2005
M. Emery - What ethical issues on the welfare of the child need to be addressed during psychological counseling?
H. Kentenich - Informed consent & counselling of people from different cultural and religous backgrounds
C. Verhaak - The psychology and ethics of treatment persistence
F. Shenfield - Who does the counsellor work for? European and legal perspective
Berlin 2004
Lectures
E. Stener-Victorin - Acupuncture
H. Birch - Hypnotherapy
A. Brewaeys - The role of the donor in teenagers' family & self-concept
J. Scheib - Experiences of youth and sperm donors in an open-identity program
J. Hunt - Opening the record: Counselling issues in seeking origins information
Group discussions
P. Baetens - Surrogacy
C. Verhaak - Evidence-based interventions for infertility
L. Schmidt - Psychosocial aspects of pregnancy/delivery after ART
J. Bitzer - Therapeutic issues for infertility counseling
A. Ruby - Managing a donor identity release program: Sperm Bank of California
J. Ellis - Australian/New Zealand experiences with linking donor offspring with their donors
Syllabus (152 KB)
Madrid 2003
Lectures J. Boivin - Psychological preparation of patients
J. Meadowcroft - Smoking and pregnancy
H. Birch - Weight-loss and pregnancy
H. Kentenich - The role of the physician in counselling
D. Guerra - How to start-up counselling services in an infertilityclinic
J. Boivin - Infertile men
H. Kentenich - Multiple Pregnancies
P. Baetens - Third party reproduction
D. Guerra - Adoption
Vienna 2002
F. Facchinetti - Stress and reproduction in women
J. Boivin - Stress and reproduction in men
T. Wischmann - Psychogenic infertility: myths and facts
B. Strauss - Epidemiological aspects
J. Bitzer - Counselling in infertility
J.K. Fronk - Mind-Body Program
Workshops
J.K. Fronk - Mind-Body program
B. Strauss - Psychosomatic concepts in infertility
T. Wischmann - Psychological counselling at the end of treatment
J. Boivin & F. Facchinetti - How to measure stress in infertility?
H. Kentenich & P. Baetens - How to manage difficult patients
Lausanne, Switzerland - June 20th – July 4th 2001
M. Emery & M. Germond - Effects of pre-IVF counselling on emotional and social factors
L. Hammer-Burns - Counselling after successful treatment
J. Boivin - Review of outcome studies on psychological interventions in infertility
L. Corrigan - Who should counsel?
M. Hammar - The counseling continuum from nurse to counsellor – a nurse's perspective
D. Guerra - The counseling continuum from nurse to counsellor – a counsellor's perspective
M.D. Beran & J. Darwish - How to manage difficult patients (exchange of experiences)
P. Thorn - Self-help groups and facilitated support groups for psychosocial care in infertility
J. Bitzer - Decision-making in treatment: The points of view of the couples and of the team
H. Kentenich - How to manage difficult patients (exchange of experiences)
F. Ansermet - The problems of the male patient in infertility treatment
P. Baetens - Counselling in third party reproduction
Tours, 1999
D.Ulrich, D. Gagel, H. Kentenich - Follow-up of parents after successful IVF and ICSI
J. Bitzer - What is counselling: Information and/or psychotherapy
S. Stoleru - Psychological factors and outcome of assisted conception Psychological factors and outcome of assisted conception
T. Appleton - Counselling in surrogacy
A. Moller - Sexuality and Sterility: Problems and possible solutions
Z. Papaligoura - Follow-up of parents and children
P. Kemeter - Difficulties in counselling
S. Stoleru - Psychological factors and outcome in IVF
A. Moller - Sexuality and sterility
P. Baetens - Difficulties in the counselling of sterile couples
Edinburgh, 1997
T. Marteau - Counselling after diagnosis of a fetal abnormality
H. Kentenich - Emotional fields in assisted reproductive medicine
T. Appelton - Counselling in assisted reproduction
P. Kemeter - Psychological impact of multiple births
B. Alder - Stressful medical procedures
S. Bell - Psychosexual aspects of subfertility
P. Brewaeys - Follow-up studies on children from lesbian couples
J. Baron - Changing nature of referrals in assisted conception
D.E. Gagel - Parents and children in assisted conception
P. Entwhistle - Men in subfertile relationships
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