title: Supervision of psychosocial skills in genetic counseling.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling and Educational Development, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: L DiAnne
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Borders
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eubanks
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Callanan
mesh_terms: 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