She found that women were better able to realize informed decision-making when they were supported by non-directive compared to directive counselling [ 29].
Two main themes emerged from the interview data about health professionals' attitudes towards ECV: directive counselling and attitudes towards lay beliefs about ECV and breech presentation.
For example, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement made recommendations to reduce England's CS rate [ 16] and promoted directive counselling to achieve this.
We used the EPDS to identify women in the community who were possibly depressed, for recruitment into a randomised controlled trial comparing antidepressants and non - directive counselling in the treatment of postnatal depression (the RESPOND trial) [ 16].
(Obstetrician, SE) The second category, obstetricians' final decision on the mode of birth, comprised the following: only professionals can make the final decision, and directive counselling by obstetricians towards VBAC.
Woman 6, multiparous and chose caesarean section Two main themes emerged from the interview data about health professionals' attitudes towards ECV; directive counselling and attitudes towards lay beliefs about ECV and breech presentation.
Some GPs who expressed strong views against the value of the PSA test, quite clearly portray this view to men in their discussions, either directly: "...I think I would really give very directive counselling and try and talk them out of it and say "It's a waste of time and really I advise against it".
Compared with non-directive counselling, it is more focused and goal-directed.
Humanist organisations in the 19th-century pioneered housing and education projects and, in the 20th century, non-directive counselling.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant, and if a CPC advertises itself as providing non-directive counselling, the public has a right to know whether this is indeed the case.
This doesn't sound like the most neutral language in the world to us, and casts doubt on whether use of "The Journey" is compatible with the tenets of non-directive counselling – which Choices Stortford says it offers to people with "post-abortion syndrome", a pseudo-medical condition much touted by the anti-abortion movement.
