Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process
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Patricia McCarthy Veach Bonnie S. LeRoy Dianne M. Bartels
Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process A Practice Manual
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Patricia McCarthy Veach
Bonnie S. LeRoy
Department of Educational Psychology 139 Burton Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling University of Minnesota 420 Delaware Street, SE, MMC 485 Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Dianne M. Bartels Center for Bioethics University of Minnesota Suite 504 Boynton 410 Church Street, SE Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Date McCarthy Veach, Patricia. Facilitating the genetic counseling process : a practice manual / Patricia McCarthy Veach Bonnie S. Leroy, Diane M. Bartels. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-387-00330-4. (softcover : alk. paper) 1. Genetic Counseling—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1. Veach, Patricia McCarthy. II. Bartels, Dianne M. III. Title. RB155.7.L47 2003 362.1¢96042—dc21
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Preface
Overview This manual is intended to help genetic counseling students develop basic helping skills that form the foundation of effective genetic counseling relationships. The chapters address several of the psychosocial, practice-based competencies established by the American Board of Genetic Counseling (1996) (see Appendix A for a list of the ABGC Clinical Competencies), including: Communication Skills (Chapters 2-7), Interpersonal Counseling and Psychosocial Assessment Skills (Chapters 8-10), AND professional Ethics and Values (Chapters 11 and 12). The content contained in this manual will not fully prepare students to practice independently. However, it will provide a skill base that deepens and broadens a