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64 3.5.3 Genetic Counseling Modalities The format for genetic counseling may pose attending challenges. Goodenberger et al. ( 20 ...

65 to you. This can be helpful information to me, so that we can address your concerns, so please feel free to stop me and tell ...

66 You should adapt your attending style to your patient’s style as much as possible rather than expecting patients to adapt to ...

67 Kim et al. ( 2003 ) report findings from the literature that Asian-Americans “...in general tend to value emotional self-cont ...

68 are impossible because of the many individual and cultural differences in patients and their situations. Psychological attend ...

69 Activity 3: Psychological Attending Role Play The instructor engages in a 10–15-min, video-recorded role-play with a voluntee ...

70 Activity 5b: Psychological Attending Role-Play (Dyads) The same dyads take turns being the counselor and the patient for two, ...

71 Process Students share their examples of poor attending. Then they discuss the impact of the counselor’s poor attending skill ...

72 3.9 Written Exercises Exercise 1^1 Briefly describe two possible meanings for each of the following patient nonverbal behavio ...

73 References Batty M, Taylor MJ. Early processing of the six basic facial emotional expressions. Cogn Brain Res. 2003;17:613–20 ...

74 Lane RC, Koetting MG, Bishop J.  Silence as communication in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Clin Psychol Rev. 2002;22:1091–104. ...

75 Williams CR, Abeles N. Issues and implications of deaf culture in therapy. Prof Psychol Res Pr. 2004;35:643–8. Zilliacus E, M ...

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78 cates the counselor understands how the patient is feeling about this information” (VandenLangenberg 2012 , p. 130). Most aut ...

79 relationship), and a strong working alliance leads to desired therapy outcomes (Elliott et al. 2011 ; Norcross and Wampold 20 ...

80 ings suggest the importance of empathy during genetic counseling sessions in order to assess patient needs, particularly with ...

81 Facilitating the establishment of rapport and trust Helping patients feel understood by the counselor Helping patients manag ...

82 Different theories describe the mechanisms of empathy. As mentioned earlier, empathy requires a “shift of perspective. It’s n ...

83 Read the genetic counseling literature. You can gain an intellectual understand- ing of what it might be like to be a geneti ...

84 ence (e.g., “It sounds like you’re angry because your parents never told you about your risk for this condition”). Be thorou ...