Tag Archives: Health care providers

Counselling professionals’ awareness and understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting: Training needs for working therapeutically with survivors.

Couns Psychother Res. 2017 Dec;17(4):309-319. doi: 10.1002/capr.12136. Epub 2017 Jul 20. Counselling professionals’ awareness and understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting: Training needs for working therapeutically with survivors. Jackson C ABSTRACT Background: There is a dearth of literature that has looked at the psychological  impact of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and little is known about theContinue reading “Counselling professionals’ awareness and understanding of female genital mutilation/cutting: Training needs for working therapeutically with survivors.”

Understanding the motivations of health-care providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature.

Reprod Health. 2017 Mar 23;14(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12978-017-0306-5. Understanding the motivations of health-care providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature. Doucet MH, Pallitto C, Groleau D. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a traditional harmful practice that can cause severe physical and psychological damages to girls and women. Increasingly, trained health-care providers carryContinue reading “Understanding the motivations of health-care providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature.”