SPECIAL TOPICS IN GENETIC COUNSELING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: GENECSLR 743 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify how the genetic counselor’s personal cultural characteristics and biases may impact encounters and use this knowledge to maintain effective client-focused services. Audience: Graduate 2. Recognize the potential tension between the values of clients, families, communities and the genetic counseling profession. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate knowledge of psychological defenses, family dynamics, family systems theory, coping models, the grief process, and reactions to illness. Audience: Graduate 4. Maintain professional boundaries by ensuring directive statements, self-disclosure, and self-involving responses are in the best interest of the client. Recognize and respond to client-counselor relationship dynamics, such as transference and countertransference, which may affect the genetic counseling interaction. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify how the genetic counselor’s personal cultural characteristics and biases may impact encounters and use this knowledge to maintain effective client-focused services. Audience: Graduate 2. Recognize the potential tension between the values of clients, families, communities and the genetic counseling profession. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate knowledge of psychological defenses, family dynamics, family systems theory, coping models, the grief process, and reactions to illness. Audience: Graduate 4. Maintain professional boundaries by ensuring directive statements, self-disclosure, and self-involving responses are in the best interest of the client. Recognize and respond to client-counselor relationship dynamics, such as transference and countertransference, which may affect the genetic counseling interaction. Audience: Graduate