Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process

✍ Scribed by Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 416
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now in its revised and updated second edition, this text provides a practical way of teaching genetic counseling helping skills. The contents can be used by genetic counselor educators and supervisors to facilitate student professional development, including gaining knowledge about basic helping skills; practicing using the skills specific to genetic counseling services; and understanding one's self as a professional in training. New topics include: the Reciprocal-Engagement Model (REM) of genetic counseling practice; research findings about genetic counselor professional development, values, compassion fatigue, burnout, and distress; expanded discussion of patient factors; and more attention to cultural issues. Every chapter contains updated literature, and both revised and new structured activities and written exercises.
Salient features of this second edition include:• An “active” and “cooperative” pedagogical approach, with numerous structured activities and exercises emphasizing student self-reflection and engagement with core content.• Inclusion of skills which comprise key elements within three competency domains for accreditation of genetic counseling training programs in North America: genetics expertise and analysis; interpersonal, psychosocial, and counseling skills and assessment; and professional development and practice.• Content grounded in a widely-cited, empirically-derived model of genetic counseling practice.• Inclusion of patient scenarios and roles for skills practice based on genetic counseling cases and reflecting recent developments in genetic knowledge, testing, and technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
Guidelines for Book Users: Instructors, Supervisors, and Students (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 1-31
Overview of Genetic Counseling: History of the Profession and the Reciprocal-Engagement Model of Practice (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 33-49
Listening to Patients: Attending Skills (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 51-75
Listening to Patients: Primary Empathy Skills (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 77-110
Gathering Information: Asking Questions (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 111-137
Structuring Genetic Counseling Sessions: Initiating, Contracting, Ending, and Referral (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 139-172
Collaborating with Patients: Providing Information and Facilitating Patient Decision-Making (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 173-213
Responding to Patient Cues: Advanced Empathy and Confrontation Skills (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 215-248
Patient Factors: Resistance, Coping, Affect, and Styles (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 249-282
Providing Guidance: Advice and Influencing Skills (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 283-302
Counselor Self-Reference: Self-Disclosure and Self-Involving Skills (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 303-327
Genetic Counseling Dynamics: Transference, Countertransference, Distress, Burnout, and Compassion Fatigue (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 329-358
Professionalism: Ethically Based Reflective Practice (Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan)....Pages 359-381
Back Matter ....Pages 383-404

✦ Subjects

Medicine & Public Health; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Human Genetics; Health Psychology