 Chief Goals for Healing
 Identify and understand Post-Abortion Syndrome
Define personal post abortion reaction triggers
Recognize hurts and judgements, to be exact. Contributes
Renovate ruined relationships
Set up a relationship with the aborted child
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Ten Stages of Post-Abortion Recovery
Step 1: The Pre-Pregnant Woman: looks at the person’s life, relationships, world view... earlier than she became pregnant.
Step 2: The Pregnancy: highlights the circumstances, emotions, reactions... of the person and others around the time of her pregnancy.
Step 3: The Abortion Decision: clears up the individual needs, values, and other influences on the person that directed to her abortion decision.
Step 4: The Abortion: gets knowledge about the pre-op and operation procedures, and the woman’s adjustment immediately afterwards.
Step 5: The Accommodation Stage: investigates more entirely how the woman took the abortion decision, blunting of emotional affect, denial... and symptoms that may have disclosed almost immediately after.
Step 6: Hurts: recognizes people participated into the abortion decision, and whose actions or judgments caused hurts.
Steps 7: Anger: looks at the emotional reactions of the person to the hurts, particularly anger.
Steps 8: Forgiveness: contains forgiveness issues - God, others, the baby, as well as forgiveness of self...
Step 9: The Baby: concentrates on the aborted child, now the accepted child... a memorial service and ways of remembering are considered.
Step 10: Carrying on with Life after the Abortion: tools for living; relationships with self, other people, God; outreach therapy - allowing the person to help themselves by helping others.
Main Tasks
Working with defence-coping techniques and breaking through denial
Dealing with guilt and forgiveness
Grieving the loss of the aborted child
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