Strategies in Genetic Counseling: {PART I} Issues in Perinatal Care -- {PART II} Religious, Cultural and Ethnic Influences on the Counseling Process -- Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Education Conference of National Sociey of Genetic Counselors - 1984

Travers, Helen and Natalie W. Paul {Editors of Part One} and Barbara Biesecker, Patricia A. Magyari, and Natalie W. Paul {Editors of Part II}

Published by March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, White Plains, New York, 1987

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"As advances in technology offer new therapeutic possibilities for treatment of infants with perinatal problems, families of the children are faced with a growing number of choices and dilemmas. Genetic counselors are increasingly responsible for helping these families decipher the possibilities and cope with the problems. The Fourth Annual Education Conference of the National Society of Genetic Counselors undertook to examine the complet counseling issues of the perinatal period The care required by affected infants and their families is a complex mix of crisis intervention and counseling strategies for long-term acceptance. Helping clients come to terms with the immediate shock and grief precipitated by their child's serious birth defects requires significantly different counseling tools that those needed to help those same families plan to live around, and with their affected children. The conference exposed counselors to varied strategies for successful intervention: conference participants were able to explore both tried and novel counseling approaches." {Helen Travers and Janet K. Williams}. This book has 281 pages. The text contains NO internal marks whatsoever. Overall, a VERY GOOD copy of this SCARCE title. Seller Inventory # 059583

Bibliographic Details

Title: Strategies in Genetic Counseling: {PART I} ...

Publisher: March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, White Plains, New York

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Vol. 20, No. 6, 1987