[Councelling regarding prenatal diagnostic: a model project to enhance cooperation between medical and psychosocial consultants].

Although according to section 2 of the Pregnancy Conflicts Law, there is a legal claim to psychosocial counselling and although its benefit has been proven empirically, pregnant women rarely draw upon it in the context of prenatal diagnostics (PND). One of the reasons is probably that physicians are not sufficiently aware of this counselling offer. By means of the model project "Interprofessional quality circles in prenatal diagnostics" an attempt was made to counteract this deficit.

[Good preconditions for a cooperation between physicians and psychosocial professionals in prenatal diagnostic counselling--empirical results referring to the initial situation of a model project].

In a model project, the cooperation between physicians and psychosocial professionals is supported in order to improve the quality of counselling in prenatal diagnostics (PND). For this purpose, interprofessional quality circles (IQZ) had been established in six different places in Germany and were accompanied scientifically. By means of a questionnaire, data on self-perception and the perception of the respective other group, the cooperation practice and various attitudes in the context of PND had been collected.

Love: an important dimension in marital research and therapy.

How do men and women describe and assess their relationship? What themes are decisive for its quality and stability? To answer such questions, we investigated a random sample of 204 married couples (reference sample), and 31 married couples undergoing psychotherapy (clinical sample) using a newly developed questionnaire. The participating couples were asked to evaluate a total of 19 themes with respect to their importance for the couple's connectedness. Although only rarely directly addressed in couple therapy and investigated in couple research, the theme "Love" proved to be the decisive factor for quality and stability.