Correction to: Talking with Children about Adult-Onset Hereditary Cancer Risk: A Developmental Approach for ParentsJournal of Genetic Counseling - Tập 27 - Trang 1523-1523 - 2018
Allison Werner-Lin, Shana L. Merrill, Amanda C. Brandt, Rachel E. Barnett, Ellen T. Matloff
The original article [1] was initially published with the following list of authors: Allison Werner-Lin, Shana L. Merrill, and Amanda C. Brandt. This author list is now corrected as follows: Allison Werner-Lin, Shana L. Merrill, Amanda C. Brandt, Rachel E. Barnett, & Ellen T. Matloff.
Iona College Community Centered Family Health History Project: Lessons Learned from Student Focus GroupsJournal of Genetic Counseling - - 2011
Penelope J. Moore, William Gratzer, Caroline Lieber, Vaughn Edelson, James O’Leary, Sharon F. Terry
The Community Centered Family Health History project was initiated to create accessible family health history tools produced by and for the community. The project goal was to promote increased community engagement in health education by encouraging conversations among family members that would translate knowledge of family health history into healthy lifestyle choices. As one of seven community pa...... hiện toàn bộ
Factors Associated with Parental Adaptation to Children with an Undiagnosed Medical ConditionJournal of Genetic Counseling - Tập 26 - Trang 829-840 - 2016
Tatiane Yanes, Linda Humphreys, Aideen McInerney-Leo, Barbara Biesecker
Little is known about the adaptive process and experiences of parents raising a child with an undiagnosed medical condition. The present study aims to assess how uncertainty, hope, social support, and coping efficacy contributes to adaptation among parents of children with an undiagnosed medical condition. Sixty-two parents of child affected by an undiagnosed medical condition for at least two yea...... hiện toàn bộ
Genetics Education for Health Professionals: A ContextJournal of Genetic Counseling - Tập 17 - Trang 145-151 - 2007
Joseph D. McInerney
Education of health professionals about genetics is essential to the integration of genetics into mainstream health care, but there are a number of associated challenges. By virtue of their training, genetic counselors are well suited to address many of those challenges and to assume a variety of roles related to genetics education for health professionals. This paper provides a brief overview of ...... hiện toàn bộ
Genetics and adoption: Forming a partnershipJournal of Genetic Counseling - Tập 1 - Trang 203-209 - 1992
Kathleen J. Delp, Lisa A. Kaepernick
Genetic issues are demanding more attention in the area of public health. Adoption agencies and policymakers are beginning to address these issues where they relate to the adoption process and to the many families involved in adoption in this country. Genetic counselors need to play an active role as both educators of and consultants for adoption professionals and the families with whom they work...... hiện toàn bộ
Genetic libraryJournal of Genetic Counseling - Tập 5 - Trang 239-242 - 1996
Susan Schmerler
Supervision of Psychosocial Skills in Genetic CounselingJournal of Genetic Counseling - Tập 15 - Trang 211-223 - 2006
L. DiAnne Borders, Sonja Eubanks, Nancy Callanan
Little has been written about how genetic counseling supervisors can help students develop psychosocial skills in their clinical rotations. The authors describe several approaches supervisors can use, ranging from preventive measures (e.g., normalizing anxiety), to skill-enhancing interventions (e.g., modeling and thinking aloud), to more direct approaches (e.g., immediacy, confrontation) that may...... hiện toàn bộ
How do Obstetric Providers Discuss Referrals for Prenatal Genetic Counseling?Journal of Genetic Counseling - Tập 14 - Trang 109-117 - 2005
Barbara A. Bernhardt, Carrie Mastromarino Haunstetter, Debra Roter, Gail Geller
To investigate referrals of pregnant women to genetic counseling, we analysed transcripts from audiotaped first prenatal visits of 104 patients (72 actual patient visits and 32 simulated patient visits) with 32 providers (obstetricians and nurse-midwives). All patients had at least one indication for referral. Only 10% of visits with actual patients included a genetic counseling referral. When gen...... hiện toàn bộ
Genetic Counselors’ Religiosity & Spirituality: Are Genetic Counselors Different from the General Population?Journal of Genetic Counseling - Tập 18 - Trang 551-566 - 2009
Ryan T. Cragun, Amelia R. Woltanski, Melanie F. Myers, Deborah L. Cragun
Although there is evidence that the religious beliefs of genetic counselors (GCs) can induce internal conflict in at least some genetic counseling scenarios, empirical research on the religiosity of GCs is limited. This study compares genetic counselors to a representative sample of the adult U.S. population on multiple religiosity measures. After controlling for several sociodemographic factors t...... hiện toàn bộ