Enhancing Postabortion Care Counseling Skills—An Interactive Learning Tool
Complications from unsafe abortion result in the deaths of about 74,000 women each year*. IntraHealth developed the DVD Enhancing Postabortion Care Counseling Skills—An Interactive Learning Tool to enhance or refresh the counseling skills of experienced providers of postabortion care (PAC) services. Through skills and behaviors modeled in this DVD, counselors can learn to build client trust and work with the client to find a safe, effective family planning method.
As learners, providers explore two stories that realistically portray the challenges counselors face when offering family planning counseling to PAC clients. The program demonstrates different counseling behaviors, and providers are challenged to choose the most appropriate behaviors based on PAC standards of practice. As part of the learning program, learners receive immediate feedback on their choices from a “mentor.” The setting is Kenya, but many of the counseling skills will be applicable in other locations. For more information, or to order the DVD, contact Nola Bower-Smith.
Transcripts of the DVD contents will be available soon.