Book contents
- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide
- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- I Introduction
- II Therapeutic Approaches
- III Third Party Reproduction: Assessment and Preparation
- IV Addressing the Needs of Diverse Populations
- V Special Topics in Fertility Counseling
- VI Practice Issues
- Chapter 25 Telemental Health in Fertility Counseling
- Chapter 26 Nuts and Bolts of Fertility Counseling
- Chapter 27 Ethical Platform of Assisted Reproduction
- The International Glossary on Infertility and Fertility Care, 2017
- Index
- References
Chapter 26 - Nuts and Bolts of Fertility Counseling
Legal Issues and Practice Management
from VI - Practice Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2022
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Book contents
- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide
- Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- I Introduction
- II Therapeutic Approaches
- III Third Party Reproduction: Assessment and Preparation
- IV Addressing the Needs of Diverse Populations
- V Special Topics in Fertility Counseling
- VI Practice Issues
- Chapter 25 Telemental Health in Fertility Counseling
- Chapter 26 Nuts and Bolts of Fertility Counseling
- Chapter 27 Ethical Platform of Assisted Reproduction
- The International Glossary on Infertility and Fertility Care, 2017
- Index
- References
Summary
Family building is seldom a straight-line march to the finish, even for those fortunate individuals who avoid a detour into the ethical and legal minefield of assisted reproductive technology (ART). Importantly, intended parents and their third-party helpers often lack fundamental information about the parties’ status to any child created – who is a parent, what rights the respective parties possess, and how those rights are protected. Unless appropriately addressed, these issues may contribute to misunderstandings, misperceptions, and confusion, all of which may be laid at the feet of the fertility counselor. In order to practice preemptive crisis management, fertility counselors must recognize risky situations, analyze them with a critical eye, practice within the parameters of competence, ethics, and legal sound stricture, and apply best practice principles. Collaboration with qualified legal practitioners who understand third-party reproduction law is essential to that end.
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