Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process: Practice-Based Skills (Paperback, 2, 2018)

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).