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Competencies
Domain III: Interpersonal, Counseling, and Psychosocial Assessment Skills
- Can establish rapport, identify major concerns, and respond to emerging issues of a client or family.
The student is able to display empathic listening and interviewing skills, and address clients´ concerns.
- Can elicit and interpret individual and family experiences, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and attitudes that clarify beliefs and values.
The student is able to assess and interpret verbal and non-verbal cues and use this information in the genetic counseling session. The student is able to engage clients in an exploration of their responses to risks and options.
- Can use a range of interviewing techniques.
The student is able to identify and select from a variety of communication approaches throughout a counseling session.
- Can provide short-term, client-centered counseling and psychological support.
The student is able to assess clients´ psychosocial needs and recognize psychopathology. The student can demonstrate knowledge of psychological defenses, family dynamics, family theory, crisis-intervention techniques, coping models, the grief process, and reactions to illness. The student can use open-ended questions; listen empathically; employ crisis intervention skills; and provide anticipatory guidance.
- Can promote client decision-making in an unbiased, non-coercive manner.
The student understands the philosophy of non-directiveness and is able to recognize his or her values and biases as they relate to genetic counseling issues. The student is able to recognize and respond to dynamics, such as counter transference, that may affect the counseling interaction.
- Can establish and maintain inter- and interdisciplinary professional relationships to function as part of a health-care delivery team.
The student behaves professionally and understands the roles of other professionals with whom he or she interacts.
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