title: A medical model for infertility counselling.
abstract: The author describes a medical counselling model for infertility counselling. Three phases of infertility are elucidated and emotional responses to infertility across a time span are described. New styles of questioning and some statistics and myths about infertility are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Family Planning Association, New South Wales.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Craig
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010358:Patient Participation; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012648:Self Care