JBRA Assisted Reproduction 2025;29(Suppl.2 SBRA 2025):183
Poster Presentation
29^th Annual Congress of the SBRA. São Paulo/SP - Brazil, 2025
doi: 10.5935/1518-0557.20263905

P-171. Parenthood Through ART: The Importance of Interdisciplinary Work Between Psychology and Law

Flávia Giacon¹, Laura Levy²

¹ Mater Prime Clínica de Reprodução Assistida - São Paulo - SP – Brasil
² UCS - Universidade de Caxias do Sul - Caxias do Sul - RS – Brasil

Objective: Parenting arising from Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) involves complex interactions between individual desires, emotional bonds, family planning, legal norms, medical and psychological aspects, all permeated by ethical dilemmas. To highlight the importance of interdisciplinary professional practice in ART, integrating Law and Psychology as specialties that promote legal and emotional security, respectively, both essential in family formation processes through this path of realizing parental projects.
Methods: A bibliographic review was conducted using the descriptors Assisted Reproduction, Parenting, Interdisciplinarity, Law, and Psychology, based on reference authors in their respective fields: Guilherme Calmon Nogueira da Gama (Law), José Roberto Goldim (Bioethics), and Maria AbuJamra Zornig (Psychology). The analysis was supplemented with deontological documents (such as those from the Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine) and scientific publications available in virtual databases, including materials from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Results: The literature describes that, in the legal field, ART challenges traditional concepts of filiation, requiring constant updates to civil norms and jurisprudence, as well as professional qualification to address diverse parental arrangements, such as surrogacy, the use of third-party genetic material (homologous or heterologous), and posthumous reproduction. Psychology provides emotional support to those involved, fostering discernment and psychological preparation for the implications of ART parenting. In medicine and genetics, biotechnological advancements offer unprecedented possibilities but also risks that demand robust bioethical criteria, transparent decision-making tools, and clear protocols, from genetic counseling to Informed Consent Forms.
Conclusion: Interdisciplinarity is essential for making well-founded clinical and legal decisions, thereby preventing conflicts and ensuring respect for the autonomy and dignity of professionals, patients, and future generations. ART parenting requires not only technology but also specialized listening, ethical conduct, and dialogue between fields of knowledge, aiming to build healthy and responsible parental bonds while recognizing family plurality and the ethical limits of the technique. The study points to the need for further research validating interdisciplinary practice in Brazilian ART clinics to ensure better emotional and legal conditions for patients on this journey.