The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Family Planning Counseling. Family planning (FP) counseling is an interpersonal exchange in which a service provider and a client engage in a dialog about FP issues. Counseling is essential to ensure quality of care in FP services. This course explains the importance of counseling in family planning service settings and introduces key family planning counseling skills.

Image Source: WHO 2006. Illustration of a service provider counseling a couple
This course covers topics such as:
  • The benefits of good family planning counseling
  • Key counseling tasks for each category of family planning clients
  • The basic skills required for good family planning counseling
  • Examples of interventions
  • Key family planning counseling tools and resources

Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.

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