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Pregnancy Options Counseling Lead Section:

In the United States, approximately 51% of the six million pregnancies are unintended. A majority of the women affected by an unintended pregnancy are aged 20-24, poor or low income, or a member of a minority group. Also, unintended pregnancy rates are generally higher in the South and Southwest regions of the United States, as well as densely populated areas. A lack of family planning, limited access to birth control, and inconsistent use of birth control are three of the contributing factors to unintended pregnancy.

Pregnancy options counseling is a form of counseling to help a woman come to a decision regarding a troubling or unintended pregnancy. During this counseling, counselors should be knowledgeable about the different supportive services that are available to a woman. They should also be non-directive in helping a woman come to a decision about how she will handle her pregnancy, whether she will seek out an abortion, give the child up for adoption, or if she will choose to parent the child as a single parent. Counselors should give information in a non-biased manner, neither encouraging or discouraging a particular decision for a woman to make.

Sources:

"Options Counseling for Pregnancy." Options Counseling for Pregnancy. Contracept.org, n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2016.

"Unintended Pregnancy in the United States." Unintended Pregnancy in the United States. Guttmacher Institute, July 2015. Web. 25 Feb. 2016.

Sources for Lovesickness Article:

Works Cited: Bowers, Len. "Chapter 9: Physiology." Social Nature of Mental Illness. 163-184. n.p.: Taylor & Francis Ltd / Books, 2000. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 14 Feb. 2016. Helen King. " The Secret Wound: Love, Melancholy and Early Modern Romance (review)." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82.2 (2008): 445-446. Project MUSE. Web. 14 Feb. 2016. < https://muse.jhu.edu/ >.

Passages Used for Citation: "Even when physiological differences exist in the brains of those we call mentally ill, several additional criteria will need to be met before these can be considered malfunctions. It remains a possibility that for many mental illnesses this evidence will never be attainable." - Social Nature of Mental Illness "love sickness is important because it is a situation in which, contrary to the ideal of classical philosophy and of its Christian adaptation, the mind is not able to control the body. Love threatens the sovereignty of reason" - Review of "The Secret Wound: Love, Melancholy and Early Modern Romance"