Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process: Practice-Based Skills, 2nd edition
This seminal text contains 13 chapters covering key communication skills, interpersonal skills, and professional values and ethics relevant to genetic counseling practice. Each chapter concludes with practice activities to help students work on the various skills taught.
| Type |
Book |
| CME Available |
No |
| Topic |
Other
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| Cost |
Print price - $149 ; ebook price - $109/per publisher |
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| Date of Resource |
2018 |
Genomic Competencies
Experts from the disciplines listed below have tagged this resource as fulfulling genomic competencies.
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Genetics Expertise and Analysis
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Interpersonal, Psychosocial and Counseling Skills
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10: Use a range of genetic counseling skills and models to facilitate informed decision-making and adaptation to genetic risks or conditions.
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10a: Demonstrate knowledge of psychological defenses, family dynamics, family systems theory, coping models, the grief process, and reactions to illness.
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10b: Utilize a range of basic counseling skills, such as open-ended questions, reflection, and normalization.
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10c: Employ a variety of advanced genetic counseling skills, such as anticipatory guidance and in-depth exploration of client responses to risks and options.
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10d: Assess clients' psychosocial needs, and evaluate the need for intervention and referral.
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10f: Develop an appropriate follow-up plan to address psychosocial concerns that have emerged in the encounter, including referrals for psychological services when indicated.
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11: Promote client-centered, informed, non-coercive and value-based decision-making.
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11a: Recognize one's own values and biases as they relate to genetic counseling.
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11b: Actively facilitate client decision-making that is consistent with the client's values.
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11c: Recognize and respond to client-counselor relationship dynamics, such as transference and countertransference, which may affect the genetic counseling interaction.
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11d: Describe the continuum of non-directiveness to directiveness, and effectively utilize an appropriate degree of guidance for specific genetic counseling encounters.
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11e: Maintain professional boundaries by ensuring directive statements, self-disclosure, and self- involving responses are in the best interest of the client.
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8: Establish a mutually agreed upon genetic counseling agenda with the client.
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8a: Describe the genetic counseling process to clients.
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8b: Elicit client expectations, perceptions, knowledge, and concerns regarding the genetic counseling encounter and the reason for referral or contact.
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8c: Apply client expectations, perceptions, knowledge and concerns towards the development of a mutually agreed upon agenda.
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8d: Modify the genetic counseling agenda, as appropriate by continually contracting to address emerging concerns.
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9: Employ active listening and interviewing skills to identify, assess, and empathically respond to stated and emerging concerns.
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9a: Elicit and evaluate client emotions, individual and family experiences, beliefs, behaviors, values, coping mechanisms and adaptive capabilities.
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9b: Engage in relationship-building with the client by establishing rapport, employing active listening skills and demonstrating empathy.
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9c: Assess and respond to client emotional and behavioral cues, expressed both verbally and non-verbally, including emotions affecting understanding, retention, perception, and decision-making.
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Professional Development & Practice
