title: [Interdisciplinary cooperation: experiences from the model project "Development of Counseling Criteria for Counseling Pregnant Patients Expecting a Handicapped Child"]].
abstract: The three-year model project "Development of consultation criteria in consulting pregnant women expecting a child with possible birth defects" aimed above all at constructing an interdisciplinary cooperation to offer the possibility of a psycho-social consultation to women and couples who are put under pressure of decision after prenatal examinations. The intended interdisciplinary cooperation between physicians and psycho-social consultation centres which are independent of the medical system resulted to be especially difficult due to the fact that various cooperation impediments stood against the construction of regular working relationships. Most of all, the differentiation of the various definitions of medical and psycho-social consultation and the relevant tasks seem to be evaluated differently by the individual profession groups. Moreover, it is not yet possible to make compatible the special working structures of the profession groups, i.e. in the medical public health system, hierarchical structures are prevailing while psycho-social consultation in free bodies bases on the voluntariness of its use. Thus, a cooperation between psycho-social consultation centres for pregnant women and clinics and established gynecologists was possible in a few cases only.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pingen-Rainer
mesh_terms: D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000523:psychology*; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*