Abstract
Medical consultations, particularly in general practice, are complicated interpersonal transactions. The family planning consultation is fundamentally no different from other consultations. Along with many other problems which are presented to doctors whose content is not to do with illness, a different approach is needed from that which many doctors were taught at medical school. In addition, the content of family planning consultations is sensitive and delicate, as has been demonstrated in Chapter 12. Both parties need to be comfortable talking about sex for the consultation to succeed. As McEwan (1982) has put it, ‘More successful consulting techniques in family planning involve providing the scientific or biomedical knowledge about methods, against a background of nondirective counselling in relation to the social and practical elements of applying the advice to everyday life in sexual relationships.’
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Balint, M. (1964) The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness, Pitman, London.
Byrne, P.S. and Long, B.E.L. (1976) Doctors talking to Patients, HMSO, London.
Fowler, C. (1985a) Health education in general practice: giving advice. Health Education Journal, 44, 103–4.
Fowler, G. (1985b) Health education in general practice: the use of leaflets. Health Education Journal, 44, 149–50
Freeling, P. and Harris, C.M. (1984) The Doctor-Patient Relationship, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.
Heron, J. (1975) Six Category Intervention Analysis, University of Surrey, Guildford.
Ley, P. (1982) Satisfaction, compliance and communication. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 21, 241–54.
McAvoy, B.R. (1985) Communication skills and family planning doctors. British Journal of Family Planning, 11, 44–9.
McEwan, J. (1982) Contraceptive advice in general practice. Maternal and Child Health, 7, 470–4.
Middleton, J.E. (1989) The exceptional potential of the consultation revisited. Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 39, 383–6.
Neighbour, R. (1987) The Inner Consultation, MTP Press, Lancaster.
Pendleton, D., Schofield, T., Tate, P. et al. (1984) The Consultation: An Approach to Learning and Teaching, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Pietroni, P. (1976) Nonverbal communication in the general practice surgery, in Language and Communication in General Practice (ed. B.A. Tanner), Hodder & Stoughton, London.
Stewart, M. and Woodhouse, J. (1987) What does the doctor wear? British Journal of Family Planning, 12, 131–4.
Stott, N.C.H. and Davis, R.H. (1979) The exceptional potential in each primary care consultation. Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 29, 201–5.
Wilkinson, C. (1989) Time to let the patient speak. British Medical Journal, 298, 389.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1993 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Rowlands, S. (1993). Analysis of the family planning consultation. In: Montford, H., Skrine, R.L. (eds) Contraceptive Care. Psychosexual Medicine Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4519-8_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4519-8_13
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-412-47050-9
Online ISBN: 978-1-4899-4519-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive