Emotional Support Unit
Infertility is considered a vital crisis because it represents a rupture in development as a species: being born, growing, reproducing and dying. People who experience this situation may come to have the feeling that others have continued to advance in their development and they have remained stagnant.
For this reason, it is common for patients who come to VITA Reproductive Medicine to carry behind them a history of failure in their attempt to conceive or a desire for a pregnancy that cannot be produced.
Psychology and Assisted Reproduction
Within the comprehensive support services for patients, VITA Reproductive Medicine has an Emotional Support Unit. This unit stands out for a team that is specialized in psychology and provides tools that promote emotional well-being during the process for both the pregnant woman and her partner.
The objective of psychological assistance is to prevent and/or reduce emotional impact, facilitate and promote new adaptive coping strategies at each stage and offer follow-up sessions and support throughout the entire process.
Thus, the VITA Reproductive Medicine team offers its patients all the human and technical means necessary to conceive a child, also counting on this emotional support service, where any patient who requires it will be counseled and accompanied.
A better state of mind not only provides greater emotional balance and a better quality of life, but also benefits and increases the success of the treatment and the chances of pregnancy.
Role of the psychology expert in an Assisted Reproduction treatment
Psychology and Assisted Reproduction are specialties that must go hand in hand, since the intervention of a psychologist during a Reproductive Medicine treatment implies the following benefits:
- The assistance of a psychologist that is specialized in assisted reproduction is usually a positive experience for women. It encourages and influences them positively through therapeutic techniques.
- Numerous studies have shown the effectiveness of emotional and psychological intervention in managing emotions derived from infertility and the need to undergo reproductive treatments (anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, restlessness…) and an increase in general psychological well-being. .
- The psychologist’s support to patients who undergo assisted reproduction treatment implies a lower rate of abandonment in treatments and a higher rate of pregnancies and births (Domar et al., 2000, Dolz and García, 2002), with respect to the patients and couples who follow routine medical care without any kind of emotional and psychological support.
