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Genetic education and counseling
Patient Education and Counseling, 1997This special issue of Patient Education and Counseling on genetic education and counseling provides an overview of studies and findings in this field. It features a mixture of papers dealing with five different topics related to several psychosocial aspects of genetic education and counseling.
A, Visser, E, Bleiker
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Clinics in Perinatology, 1990
Continued advances in reproductive technology and prenatal diagnosis challenge genetic counselors in their provision of appropriate prenatal genetic counseling. Complex information must be communicated to the couple in a nondirective but supportive manner for the couple to make an informed decision.
A P, Garber, H E, Hixon
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Continued advances in reproductive technology and prenatal diagnosis challenge genetic counselors in their provision of appropriate prenatal genetic counseling. Complex information must be communicated to the couple in a nondirective but supportive manner for the couple to make an informed decision.
A P, Garber, H E, Hixon
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Genetic Counseling in Psychiatry
Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2006While psychiatrists may commonly discuss family history in clinical practice, there has been little systematic research documenting the role and effectiveness of genetic counseling for psychiatric disorders. In the coming years, the expected identification of susceptibility genes for psychiatric disorders may bring new opportunities and expectations ...
Christine T, Finn, Jordan W, Smoller
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Genetic prognosis and counseling
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1964P R o G N o s I s in medicine implies a forecast of the probable course of a given disease in the patient suffering from that disease. Genetic prognosis differs from medical prognosis in predicting the probability of recurrence of an hereditary disease in offspring or relatives of parents who usually have had an affected child. Genetic prognosis may be
A G, MOTULSKY, F, HECHT
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Principles of Genetic Counseling
Acta Ophthalmologica, 2010AbstractPurpose To present the genetic counselling needs of families with inherited eye disease and examine the ethical and emotional issues around genetic testingMethods The presentation will focus on the psychosocial impact of inherited eye disease and the dilemmas in counselling and testing using case discussions and data from qualitative studies ...
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Clinical Genetics, 2001
The goals of genetic counseling have differed over the past three decades. Two schools of thought are prominent in reviewing past literature. One upholds the goal of preventing birth defects and genetic disorders while the other promotes a goal of improved psychological well‐being in client adaptation to a genetic condition or risk. Both types of goals
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The goals of genetic counseling have differed over the past three decades. Two schools of thought are prominent in reviewing past literature. One upholds the goal of preventing birth defects and genetic disorders while the other promotes a goal of improved psychological well‐being in client adaptation to a genetic condition or risk. Both types of goals
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Preconception Genetic Counseling
Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1996The purpose of this chapter has not been to be all-inclusive, but to raise awareness of the benefits of preconception consultation in the prevention of birth defects. If there is to be a significant decrease in the incidence of congenital malformations, it will come only by intervention that occurs prior to organogenesis, and that opportunity is lost ...
J S, Hogge, W A, Hogge
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APPROACHES TO GENETIC COUNSELING*
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1975Prerequisites for counseling about reproductive odds are an accurate diagnosis and a complete and pertinent family history. Specifically in hemophilia (a deficiency of actors 8 and 9 both linked through the X chromosome) the results of tests of the clotting characteristics of the blood of the mother and female siblings are desirable since ...
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The rationale of genetic counseling
The Journal of Pediatrics, 1968An account is presented of the principles of assessing genetic risk as a prelude to genetic counseling. The information used may be modular, that is, based on the use of rational genetic models; empirical and derived from population studies; or particular and based on information from the pedigree.
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The Ethics of Genetic Counseling
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae, 1974Amniocentesis was developed as a therapeutically-oriented procedure, and still is when performed in the third trimester of pregnancy. But mid-trimester amniocentesis (14th to 18th week) is at present applied only for eugenic reasons: (1) to determine the sex of the baby, (2) to diagnose the presence and nature of a chromosomal disorder, (3) to diagnose
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