Competency information
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Reflect on how a client’s beliefs and values have influenced their response to genetic counselling and testing and how you responded to this in a trainee led consultation.
Considerations
- How to elicit patients’ beliefs and values in relation to genetic counselling and/or testing.
- How an individual’s beliefs and values may influence their response to genetic counselling.
- How an individual’s beliefs and values may influence their response to genetic testing.
- How an individual’s beliefs and values in relation to genetic counselling and/or testing can contribute to delivering better quality genetic counselling to them.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Lead on establishing the patient agenda and psychosocial needs in complex genetic and genomic counselling consultations, under the supervision of an experienced Genetic Counsellor (GCRB Registered Genetic Counsellor) |
| # 2 | Outcome Facilitate complex decision making during genetic and genomic counselling consultations. |
| # 3 | Outcome Communicate genetic 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. |