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Chapter 25 - Emotional Support

A Key Component of Training and Service Delivery in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care

from Section III - Family Planning Curricular Design & Implementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

By
Alissa C. Perrucci
Edited by
Uta Landy ,
Philip D Darney  and
Jody Steinauer
Uta Landy
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
Philip D Darney
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
Jody Steinauer
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Summary

Teaching, learning and providing emotional support in the sexual and reproductive healthcare setting is a key component of successful and sustainable abortion and family planning programs.Beneficial outcomes – for both patients and providers –are tied to the skillful provision of emotional support and patient-centered communication.In this chapter, the activity of pregnancy decision counseling is used to illustrate self-knowledges, attitudes, and skills by which emotional support is operationalized within the framework of an Entrustable Professional Activity.Guidance is provided for self-directed learning in active listening, assessment, analyzing assumptions and recognizing bias.The deliberate practice and cognitive apprenticeship models describe the roles of teacher and learner in the real-world setting of the medical environment.Emotional support lends itself to these models in the same way as other important, routine activities that are essential to providing high-quality patient-centered care.

Keywords

patient-centered caredecision-makingemotionsself-directed learningabortionreproductive healthfamily planning services
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Advancing Women's Health Through Medical Education
A Systems Approach in Family Planning and Abortion
 , pp. 253 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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