Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process A Practice Manual /

• Main Authors: Veach, Patricia McCarthy (Author), LeRoy, Bonnie S. (Author), Bartels, Dianne M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2003.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human genetics.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Human Genetics.

Every parent hopes for a healthy, "normal" baby, but not all babies fall into that category. On a daily basis, genetic counselors help clients, at whatever stage of intended or actual pregnancy, navigate both the purely clincial manifestations of a complicated birth and the short and long...

Table of Contents:

• Guidelines for Manual Users: Instructors, Supervisors, and Students
• Overview of Genetic Counseling: History of the Profession and Methods of Practice
• Listening to Clients: Attending Skills
• Listening to Clients: Primary Empathy Skills
• Gathering Information: Asking Questions and Taking Client Genetic History
• Structuring the Genetic Counseling Session: Initiating, Contracting, Ending, and Referral
• Collaborating with Clients: Providing Information and Assisting in Client Decision Making
• Responding to Client Cues: Advanced Empathy and Confrontation
• Client Issues: Resistance, Client Affect, and Client Styles
• Counselor Self-Reference: Advice Giving, Self-Disclosure, and Self-Involving Responses
• Behaving Ethically
• Recognizing Your Limits: Transference, Countertransference, Stress, and Burnout
• Using Internet Resources.