9798190854770 - Handbook on Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process: Systematic Approach to Family History Assessment, Risk Communication, and Relational Engagement Skills for Abgc Candidates by Houle Md, Anthony S. (4 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Built for the counselor who has to hold technical genetics content and a patient's live emotional reaction in the same breath, this reference translates the profession's person-centered and Reciprocal-Engagement foundations into a session-by-session facilitation system. It moves from the structure of the encounter itself, intake through closure, through risk communication, psychosocial assessment, nondirective decision-making, and difficult-news delivery, then applies each skill across prenatal, pediatric, cancer, cardiovascular, neurogenetic, preconception, and telehealth practice. The Encounter Pattern Library at its core names the specific junctures, a patient's silence, an unspoken values conflict, an unintended directive signal, where facilitation skill is actually tested, and gives each one a concrete move, not a principle to simply remember.A cross-referenced Master Index turns these recurring clinical moments into a vocabulary you can draw on mid-session, not just recall afterward.Inside, You Will Learn How To: - Structure any session - a four-phase architecture from preparation through closing synthesis that protects psychosocial content even when time runs short.- Communicate risk a patient can actually use - Bayesian modification, natural-frequency framing, and visual aids that replace bare percentages with numbers a family can act on.- Surface what a session's surface calm is hiding - structured psychosocial assessment technique built for exactly the moments training rarely covers.- Hold nondirectiveness under real pressure - values-clarification technique for the decision with no single correct answer, including when a patient asks what you would do.- Deliver news a family will remember accurately - a SPIKES-based framework adapted specifically for genetic uncertainty, grief, and guilt.- Adapt facilitation across every major context - prenatal timelines, pediatric triads, cancer disclosure, adult-onset predictive testing, and telehealth privacy, each with its own worked case.- Move a cascade of at-risk relatives from disclosure to testing - individualized family-communication planning built from what actually predicts follow-through.- Sustain the skill across a full career - supervision technique and self-awareness practice built to outlast a single rotation.Facilitate the session your training taught you to run, and your caseload has never quite given you time for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…