Chapter 5: Facilitating autonomy.
In: New Genetics & The Public's Health; 2001, p135-158, 24p; (2001-12-13) S. 135-158
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This article focuses on a number of key premises of genetic counseling as these are articulated in the professional literature, and explains some of their implications and limitations in practice. Assumptions about the new genetics and its potential to transform health and empower consumers are nowhere more clearly articulated than in the rapidly developing area of genetic counseling. In recent years a growing number of writers have expounded the importance of counseling for facilitating autonomy in decisionmaking before and/or after genetic testing, especially in reproductive decisions but also in treatment and life-style decisions in the case of so-called adult-onset disorders. Genetic counseling is a relatively new profession, which is predicted to play an increasingly important role at the interface between scientists and consumers, in both the communication of the risk information arising from genetic research and in offering support to those who are confronted with the attendant choices and dilemmas. Counselors seek to facilitate autonomous decision-making through the use of an approach that has been described as non-directive, borrowing from the non-directiveness advocated by Carl Rogers in his work on client-centered therapy.
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Chapter 5: Facilitating autonomy.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Petersen, Alan ; Bunton, Robin |
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Quelle: | New Genetics & The Public's Health; 2001, p135-158, 24p; (2001-12-13) S. 135-158 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2001 |
Medientyp: | Buch |
ISBN: | 978-0-415-22142-9 (print) |
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