Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process: A Practice Manual

✍ Scribed by Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Dianne M. Bartels (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 term emotional impact. This manual helps students learn how to guide clients through this complex and difficult process. Designed to help students learn these basic counseling skills, FACILITATING THE GENETIC COUNSELING PROCESS takes a "how to" approach to these complex and emotionally charged client interactions.

✦ Table of Contents

Guidelines for Manual Users: Instructors, Supervisors, and Students....Pages 1-22
Overview of Genetic Counseling: History of the Profession and Methods of Practice....Pages 23-37
Listening to Clients: Attending Skills....Pages 38-50
Listening to Clients: Primary Empathy Skills....Pages 51-72
Gathering Information: Asking Questions and Taking Client Genetic History....Pages 73-92
Structuring the Genetic Counseling Session: Initiating, Contracting, Ending, and Referral....Pages 93-121
Collaborating with Clients: Providing Information and Assisting in Client Decision Making....Pages 122-149
Responding to Client Cues: Advanced Empathy and Confrontation....Pages 150-173
Client Issues: Resistance, Client Affect, and Client Styles....Pages 174-196
Counselor Self-Reference: Advice Giving, Self-Disclosure, and Self-Involving Responses....Pages 197-221
Behaving Ethically....Pages 222-241
Recognizing Your Limits: Transference, Countertransference, Stress, and Burnout....Pages 242-261
Using Internet Resources....Pages 262-286

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences, general; Human Genetics