Коммуникативная направленность психолога-консультанта как фактор готовности к консультированию женщин с психологическим бесплодием

Introduction. The relevance of the research topic is due to the objectively existing contradiction between the growing number of women with psychological infertility, their requests for qualified psychological help and the lack of investigation on the problem of training psychologists to provide such assistance. The purpose of this study was to identify the typological features of women with psychological infertility and the level of their satisfaction with relationships with counseling psychologists, depending on different communication orientations. Methods. The study was carried out in two stages: in the first series, the types of women with psychological infertility were identified by processing empirical data on their personality traits, manifested in interpersonal interaction. 312 women with a diagnosis of unspecified infertility were examined. The second series of the empirical study consisted in identifying the relationship of female clients with a predominance of different personality types, with their counseling psychologists with different communication orientations (n=72). Results. There have been identified five types of women with psychological infertility and the peculiarities of their relationship with counseling psychologists of different communicative orientation: most women of aggressive-masculine type demonstrated satisfaction with communication interaction with consultants characterized by the predominance of conformal orientation; infantile-capricious type was related to manipulative orientation; patronizing-instructive type – authoritarian orientation; anxiety-phobic – alterocentric orientation; professional-oriented type – dialogue orientation. It has been established that the consultants' ideas about "difficult" clients from among infertile women were largely due to the predominance of a certain type of orientation in communicative interaction. Discussion. It has been concluded that one of the factors of a psychologist's preparedness to consult women with psychological infertility was their ability to use different forms of behavior in communicative situations, and to transform them depending on the typological characteristics of client's personality.