Psychosocial Genetic Counseling
Series: Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics; 41;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 October 2000
- ISBN 9780195120660
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 241x165x23 mm
- Weight 662 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This text provides a comprehensive account of the psychosocial aspects of genetic counselling, combining theoretical and practical approaches with many clinical vignettes. It covers the psychosocial effects of genetic disorders on individuals, couples, and families; counselling techniques and the counselling session agenda; prenatal diagnosis counselling, cancer risk counselling, and genetic counselling with children and adolescents; the psychology of risk interpretation and decision making; and the influence of ethnocultural issues on counsellees and counsellor.
MoreLong description:
Psychosocial issues are integral to all genetic counselling interactions. They include counsellees' beliefs about the cause of birth defects and genetic disorders, the cognitive procession of medical information and risk figures, emotions such as anxeity and guilt, and the complex process of decision making. Drawing on direct clinical experience and the growing body of relevant literatue, Psychosocial Genetic Counseling provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to understanding these issues and their applications to genetic counselling.
The book combines theoretical and practical approaches, including many clinical vignettes and examples of dialogue. It is written in an engaging style that conveys the emotional immediacy of genetic counselling. The emotional and social effects of genetic disorders are discussed with reference to the individual and to couple, family, and social interactions. Counselling techniques and the agenda of the genetic counselling session are then addressed in detail. Specialized aspects of prenatal diagnosis counselling, cancer risk counselling, and genetic counselling with children and adolescents are integrated with these general principles. Nondirective counselling and the psychology of risk interpretation and decision making are discussed from theoretical and historical perspectives, leading to recommendations for their application to clinical practice. The influences of ethnocultural history, beliefs and practices, for counsellee and counsellor, are then discussed as they enter into all aspects of genetic counselling.
An outstanding and significant addition to the genetic counseling literature, filling a curricular gap in medical genetics and genetic counseling training programs...Dr. Weil has composed a comprehensive discussion of the psychosocial aspects of genetic counseling; his scholarship is of the highest quality. The text is of interest to genetic counselors, genetic counseling students, clinical geneticists, genetic residents, obstetricians, pediatricians, social workers and any other health professionals who deal with patients and families with genetic or potentially genetic disorders.
Table of Contents:
The Counselee as Individual
The Counselee in a Social Context
Techniques of Psychosocial Genetic Counseling
The Structure of Genetic Counseling Interactions
Nondirective Counseling, conselee Autonomy and Decision Making
Specific Counseling Situations and Counselees
The Ethnocultural Imperative
Genetic Counseling in an Expanding Social Context
