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

327 Hill CE, Gelso CJ, Chui H, Spangler PT, Hummel A, Huang T, et al. To be or not to be immedi- ate with clients: the use and p ...

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 329 P. McCarthy Veach et al., Facilitating the Genetic Coun ...

330 12.1.1 Definition of Patient Transference Transference is an unconscious way patients relate to the genetic counselor based ...

331 nonstop, and dismissing/ignoring your interpretations and reactions. For instance, sometimes in prenatal genetic counseling ...

332 A 33-year-old patient was referred because her prenatal screening showed that her risk for Down syndrome was 1 in 44. The r ...

333 Reflect transference feelings. For example, “You said you don’t want to discuss your infertility history because you think ...

334 Causes of Countertransference Why does countertransference occur? You and your patients may be similar or dif- ferent in any ...

335 religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and/or disability may raise issues of countertransference. Stereotypes, ...

336 Reeder et  al. ( 2017 ) surveyed clinical genetic counselors about their counter- transference experiences. They identified ...

337 your interpretations (“You told me that you are very angry, but I wonder if you are also sad. I’m probably off base with tha ...

338 they are working repeatedly with a patient population that is very needy and for whom there is little room for change in the ...

339 Engage in self-disclosure that is of questionable value/relevance to the genetic counseling goals (Balcom et  al. 2013; Men ...

340 The genetic counselor also had a 14-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son. The counselor felt very strongly that this pati ...

341 value calculation was dissected, and the issue became the process, and not the implications of testing. It was as if there w ...

342 supervision are so crucial. You might realize after a genetic counseling ses- sion that you were acting out of character, or ...

343 yourself from the excesses of emotional pain by at times moving back a little, grounding yourself, and then joining with the ...

344 Set your genetic counseling priorities. Decide which are the most important things to accomplish during a session and what ...

345 et  al. 2016 , p.  735). Additional factors found to contribute to genetic counselor burnout are larger patient caseloads, l ...

346 job take over all aspects of their life. But then I met other counselors who showed me how to ‘have it all,’ and I realized ...

347 As Peters (2010) notes, “...genetic counselors clearly do witness much pain and suffering, and may fall prey to compassion f ...