Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process

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

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).

"This book is a great tool for genetic counseling faculty members and should be included in the genetic counseling curriculum. ... This is a well-planned book and it presents the information well." (Luis F Escobar, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2019)

“This book is a great tool for genetic counseling faculty members and should be included in the genetic counseling curriculum. … This is a well-planned book and it presents the information well.” (Luis F Escobar, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2019)