Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process

A fully revised and expanded second edition on facilitating genetic counseling, grounded in the recent ACGC practice-based competencies
Utilizes an active, cooperative approach with multiple clinical case examples and structured activities and written exercises clearly reflecting necessary skills
Ideal for students in the field as well as genetic counselor educators and supervisors in the training and supervision of students to enhance their professional development

Auteur
Patricia McCarthy Veach, PhD, LP, Emerita Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Roseville, MN, USA
Bonnie S. LeRoy, MS, CGC, Director, Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling, University of Minnesota, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Minneapolis, MS, USA
Nancy P. Callanan, MS, CGC, Director, Genetic Counseling Program, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA

Contenu
Guidelines for Book Users: Instructors, Supervisors, and Students.- Overview of Genetic Counseling: History of the Profession and the Reciprocal Model of Practice.- Listening to Patients: Attending Skills.- Listening to Patients: Primary Empathy Skills.- Gathering Information: Asking Questions.- Structuring Genetic Counseling Sessions: Initiating, Contracting, Ending, and Referral.- Collaborating with Patients: Providing Information and Facilitating Patient Decision Making.- Responding to Patient Cues: Advanced Empathy and Confrontation Skills.- Patient Factors: Resistance, Coping, Affect, and Styles.- Providing Guidance: Advice and Influencing Skills.- Counselor Self-Reference: Self-Disclosure and Self-Involving Skills.- Genetic Counseling Dynamics: Transference, Countertransference, Distress, Burnout, and Compassion Fatigue.- Professionalism: Ethically-Based Reflective Practice.- Appendix A: ACGC (2015) Practice-Based Competencies.- Appendix B: NSGC Code of Ethics (2017).