Chapter 3
Counselling
This chapter supports trained professionals within and outside the health system in strengthening the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide client-centred sexual and reproductive health counselling that promotes voluntary and informed decision-making by clients. Counselling is a crosscutting element in sexual and reproductive healthcare and is critically important for all people of reproductive age and particularly for youth (ages 15–24 years), in both development and humanitarian contexts. The counselling guidance provided in this chapter should be applied to all sexual and reproductive healthcare provided in these Client-Centred Clinical Guidelines.
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