Training activity information
Details
Reflect on a range of communication and counselling skills used in independent counselling sessions with a counselling supervisor through audio and/or video recording
Type
Developmental training activity (DTA)
Evidence requirements
Evidence the activity has been undertaken by the trainee​.
Reflection on the activity at one or more time points after the event including learning from the activity and/or areas of the trainees practice for development.
An action plan to implement learning and/or to address skills or knowledge gaps identified.
Considerations
- Patient’s consent
- Active listening skills
- Ability to establish a good rapport with the individual/family
- Clarification skills
- Reflection and summary skills
- Appropriate use of empathic statements
- Models of grief and loss.
- Support mechanisms
- Family communication
- Recognition of different response such as guilt and shame
- AGNC code of ethics
- GCRB code of conduct
- Good scientific practice
- HCPC standards of proficiency
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 |
Outcome
Employ counselling skills to facilitate complex decision making during genetic and genomic counselling consultations. |
| # 3 |
Outcome
Apply communication skills to provide complex genomic test results in an empathic manner. |
| # 4 |
Outcome
Use counselling supervision and multidisciplinary meetings to work through ethical and cultural issues in genomic counselling practice. |