Week 6: The Green Book Flashcards
Unconditional positive regard, genuineness, empathy
Carl Rogers 3 core qualities
Stating in your own words what the client has told you
Re-phrasing
If you’ve seen a family member before, can you use the same pedigree for a different family member?
No, HIPAA
Consider _______ if a person with a genetic condition and has a limited lifespan. Especially if: genetic testing is unavailable, has low detection rate, is unaffordable, or no mutation was identified
DNA banking
Always ask the patient to tell their _____
Narrative
Counsellor makes assumptions about the experience of a client (has emotional reaction themselves and assumes it’s what the counsel feels
Projection
Extremely challenging situation for the client and the counsellor becomes a temporary repository of the feeling that is unacceptable in the client
Projective Identification
Emotional response: Inability yo acknowledge to oneself certain formation or news
Denial
Emotional Response: Complex universal emotion that seeks to blame
Anger
Emotional Response: often experienced by parents of a child with a genetic condition
Guilt and Shame
Emotional Response: common response to loss/anticipated loss
Grief and despair
Emotional Response: “Why me?”
Questioning
Coping Style: trying to change the opinion of the person in charge
Confronting
Coping Style: going on as if nothing happened
Distancing
Coping Style: keeping feelings to oneself
Self-controlling
Coping Style: engaging in conversation in the hopes of learning more
Seeking social support
Coping Style: criticizing oneself
Accepting responsibility
Coping Style: hoping for a miracle
Escape Avoidance
Coping Style: identifying and following a plan of action
Plan
Coping Style: identifying existing or potential positive outcomes
Positive Reappraisal
Relationship is integral to GC-ing, patient autonomy must be supported, patients are resilient, patient emotions make a difference
4 Tenets of Genetic Counselling
Actual or dramatic instances of certain outcomes will increase the perceived likelihood that the outcomes will occur
Availability Heuristic