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Improving uptake of psychosocial counselling
• Introduce the psychologic support before the medical process (name it: "orientation meeting")
• Make personal and direct contact with the patients
• Present counselling as an integral component of the infertility treatment
• Offer free support to all patients regardless of their cause of their infertility
=> About one-half of the male patients took up psychologic
group counselling (only 3% in individual/couple setting) (Furman et al. 2010)
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What to consider in couple counselling
• Be careful about appearing to take sides or subtly praise the female client
• Address man’s ambivalence about help seeking
• Address masculine/feminine socialisation (e.g. conflict between work life and family life)
• Address man’s discomfort with emotions
• Accept that men usually need more time in identifying their emotions and finding words for it than women
(Englar-Carlson & Shepard 2005)
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