Bookby Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan.
Contents:
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).