Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process Practice-Based Skills, Second Edition

247 Jackson JL, Hill CE, Spangler PT, Ericson SK, Merson ES, Liu J, et al. Training undergraduate students to use interpretation ...

248 Siemińska MJ, Szymańska M, Mausch K. Development of sensitivity to the needs and suffering of a sick person in students of m ...

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 249 P. McCarthy Veach et al., Facilitating the Genetic Coun ...

250 common in genetic counseling, and it is a normal reaction, especially when patients perceive an issue as important (Weil 201 ...

251 Have already experienced a great deal of emotional pain (grief, anger, fear, shame, or guilt) from their genetic concerns a ...

252 Believe genetic counseling is essentially the same thing as psychotherapy, and therefore it may involve extensive probing i ...

253 9.1.3 Behaviors That May Indicate Resistance Resistance may occur when patients: Do not seem to know what they want from ge ...

254 recent ultrasound. Surely a trained physician knows more about pregnancy than a genetic counselor.) This form of resistance ...

255 genetic counselor recommends yet another evaluation (medical genetics), she is often met by some amount of resistance. In mo ...

256 Strategy: Examine the quality of your own responses. Ask yourself if you are doing anything to generate resistance from your ...

257 when the counselor asked her why she came, she responded, “My doctor made me come down here because he thinks it would be te ...

258 the provider would “give” the condition to them. It was important for the health- care providers to recognize that this resi ...

259 9.2 Coping Behaviors Patients will exhibit a variety of coping behaviors and strategies. Some of their strate- gies are more ...

260 There are several different types of defense mechanisms, in addition to those described earlier in this chapter, that we def ...

261 technology and our interpretation [displacement].... So, it was just difficult because I’ve never been pushed that hard on t ...

262 with chronic illnesses to experience life as normal, denial can have negative conse- quences if people minimize problems to ...

263 diagnoses. For example, “Professionals need to recognize that both avoidance and active problem solving are valid ways of co ...

264 Anger can be a difficult emotion to address, especially for beginning counselors (Schema et  al. 2015 ). Nevertheless, it’s ...

265 family through the adjustment to a diagnosis or who guides the mourning of a family member. We assist families who are robbe ...

266 ligation. It’s reasonable to suggest that patients put off decisions that seem “rushed” until more time has passed and they ...