Tuesday December 7, 2004

Faith-Based Post-Abortion Counselling Helps Women Recover from Experience

TAMPA, Florida, December 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - New research published in the journal Research on Social Work Practice has found that faith-based post-abortion counselling is effective for alleviating the post-traumatic stress and shame often experienced by women after an abortion.

The Elliot institute reported on the findings, revealing that women who sought out support groups with a faith-based dimension improved significantly. Of the 35 women involved in the study, more than 80 percent said that "their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group."

The scientists, affiliated with the University of South Florida, suggest that social workers screen women for signs of post-abortion grief and make referrals to groups offering faith-based post-abortion counselling.

Read the research on-line at: http://rsw.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/14/5/344

Visit the Elliot Institute on-line at: http://www.afterabortion.org/

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