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

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Criteria for Evaluating Counselor Primary Empathy

• Accuracy


• Aware of content


• Aware of feelings


• Well-timed


• Tentative


• Concise


• Primary, not advanced empathy

Estimated time: 75 min.

Process
In the large group, students discuss what they learned from the role-play, what ques-
tions they still have about primary empathy and attending skills, and what they think
about the role of empathy skills in genetic counseling.
Estimated time: 10–15 min.

Activity 8: Cultural Empathy Presentations^1

For this activity, each student will summarize a different selected chapter from
Fisher ( 1996 ) about the particular cultural group and describe selected resources for
providing culturally competent care for individuals in the identified population in a
20-min oral presentation.
Students should be given the following instructions:

1. Select a chapter from Fisher to summarize for your classmates.


2. Identify additional references/resources for providing culturally competent care
   for individuals from this population.


3. Prepare a 1–2-page handout summarizing major points of the chapter and the
   additional resources you identified. Include in your handout an annotated bibliog-
   raphy of the references and resources you used in preparing your presentation.
   Estimated time: 20 min per presentation.

4.12 Written Exercises

Exercise 1

Identify two situations in your own life where you have experienced disappoint-
ment, loss, grief, etc.

• Describe the situation, what you were feeling, thinking, doing.


• How did you cope with the situation?


• What resources (including other people) did you turn to in order to seek
  assistance?

(^1) Resource: Fisher ( 1996 ).
4.12 Written Exercises