Family Planning Counseling Optional Session Session III

1. Family Planning Counseling Optional Session Session III

2. Serving Diverse Groups • Different client’s have different needs • What are some of the special needs of these groups: male vs. female, adolescents vs. adults, postabortion or postpartum women vs. interval. • How would you address each of these client’s needs?

3. Family Planning Counseling Needs of Adolescents • Young people deserve nonjudgmental and respectful care • Show them that you enjoy working with them • Use terms that suit young people • Try to make sure that a young woman's choices are her own • Speak without expressing judgment • Take time to fully address questions, fears, and misinformation

4. How can I help you? • Anything you want to discuss? • For example: • Will parents or partner find out? • Need contraception? • HIV/AIDS worries? • Partner problems? • Pregnancy? • About sex? • About the body? You are welcome here any time

5. Family Planning Counseling Needs of Men • Coach men and women on how to talk with their partners about family planning and STIs. • Encourage men to make decisions about sexual and reproductive health jointly with their partners. • Encourage women to bring their partners to see clinical providers for joint counseling, decision-making, and care. • Suggest to female clients that they tell their partners about health services for men. Give female clients informational materials to take home, if available. • Correct men’s misperceptions and give them information to inform their decisions and opinions.

6. Family Planning Counseling Needs of Postpartum Women • Discuss the importance of birth spacing • Explain the rapid return to fertility for women who are not breastfeeding • Discuss return to sexual activity • Explain benefits of LAM and exclusive breastfeeding • Discuss family planning options and when each method can be started • Integrate family planning within maternal, newborn and child health services

7. How can I help you? • Let’s plan for the future • You can become pregnant soon if you are not breast feeding • Breast feeding will protect you from pregnancy for 6 months if you use it exclusively without giving other food or liquids. • There are many good family planning methods that you can use while you are breastfeeding

8. Family Planning Needs of Postabortion Women • Women who have just been treated for postabortion complications need easy and immediate access to family planning services • A woman who has had postabortion complications needs support. - Try to understand what she has been through - Treat her with respect and avoid judgment and criticism - Ensure privacy and confidentiality - Ask if she wants someone she trusts to be present during counseling • Explain that fertility returns quickly and discuss family planning options

9. How can I help you? . Let’s discuss your needs: • You can get pregnant again quickly • I can help you choose and use a method • All family planning methods are safe now if you have no infection

10. Culture/Gender Roles and FP • Explore how cultural beliefs and traditions about roles for men and women affect use of FP • Suggest strategies for: • Empowering women to control their fertility • Changing some of the roles that make women less important or less powerful than men

11. Spin the Wheel Points