Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process : A Practice Manual - Veach, Patricia McCarthy; LeRoy, Bonnie S.; Bartels, Dianne M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York, 2003)
Guidelines for Manual Users: Instructors, Supervisors, and Students -- Overview of Genetic Counseling: History of the Profession and Methods of Practice -- Listening to Clients: Attending Skills -- Listening to Clients: Primary Empathy Skills -- Gathering Information: Asking Questions and Taking Client Genetic History -- Structuring the Genetic Counseling Session: Initiating, Contracting, Ending, and Referral -- Collaborating with Clients: Providing Information and Assisting in Client Decision Making -- Responding to Client Cues: Advanced Empathy and Confrontation -- Client Issues: Resistance, Client Affect, and Client Styles -- Counselor Self-Reference: Advice Giving, Self-Disclosure, and Self-Involving Responses -- Behaving Ethically -- Recognizing Your Limits: Transference, Countertransference, Stress, and Burnout -- Using Internet Resources.
Keywords: Life sciences; Human genetics; Life Sciences, general; Human Genetics