Egg donor wanted': social work with women looking for an egg donor

Title: Egg donor wanted': social work with women looking for an egg donor
Creator: Hart, Vivien; Plath, Debbie
Relation: Australian Social Work Vol. 64, Issue 4, p. 515-525
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2011.573859
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: Women seeking fertility treatment using donor eggs can face challenges associated with recruiting suitable egg donors and negotiating the role that the donor may play in the life of the child. Social work in infertility clinics is an emerging area of practice and social work counsellors have an important role to play with parties involved in the egg donation process. This paper seeks to raise awareness of social work practice with women seeking egg donors, providing an overview of issues for social work practice. Findings from a small practice research project are also presented to highlight the experiences of women advertising for egg donors and to illustrate an empowerment approach to social work practice with these women. It was found that with the support of the social work counsellor, newspaper advertising can be an effective method to recruit egg donors for fertility treatment that allows women control over the process.
Subject: assisted reproduction technology; infertility; counselling
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062630
Identifier: uon:17116
Identifier: ISSN:1447-0748
Language: eng
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