Adolescent Postabortion Groups: Risk Reduction in a School-Based Health Clinic

Abstract

<p>A short-term postabortion group for adolescents was developed. Three groups were conducted in an adolescent mental health clinic within an urban high school-based health clinic. The clinical group experiences offered the adolescents an opportunity to integrate the experience of pregnancy and the abortion decision into their lives. At follow up, adolescents who participated in the postabortion counseling groups indicated that they chose and used a method of birth control, did not repeat an unplanned pregnancy, and remained in high school.</p>