Supervision of psychosocial skills in genetic counseling.
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 be necessary for students who are reluctant, or even resistant, to using psychosocial skills with their clients.
Borders
L DiAnne
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Department of Counseling and Educational Development, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
Eubanks
Sonja
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Callanan
Nancy
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D003376:Counseling / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D005817:Genetic Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical; D011361:Professional Competence; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012919:Social Behavior