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