title: The Greatest Priority for Genetic Counseling: Effectively Meeting Our Clients' Needs 2014 NSGC Natalie Weissberger Paul National Achievement Award.
abstract: Receipt of the 2014 Natalie Weissberger Paul (NWP) National Achievement Award was a highlight of my career. Thank you to all who nominated me for this prestigious NSGC recognition. I am humbled to join past NWP award winners many of whom are admired mentors, treasured colleagues and friends. I would like to express what a privilege it is to honor Natalie Weissberger Paul for whom this award is named. Twenty-nine years ago I co-edited a volume of the Birth Defects Original Article Series with Natalie summarizing a conference co-funded by the March of Dimes and NSGC (Biesecker et al., 1987). Natalie demonstrated her devotion to children with special needs through her work at the March of Dimes. As such I believe she would concur with the focus of my remarks on the partners in our work: our clients.
authors.affiliation: Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, Room B1B36, Bethesda, MD, 20817-2073, USA. barbarab@mail.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Barbara Bowles
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Biesecker
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D005260:Female; D005817:Genetic Counseling / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States
keywords: Client centered care; Paradigm shift in genetic counseling; Psychotherapeutic genetic counseling