Psychosocial Genetic Counseling

This text provides a comprehensive account of the psychosocial aspects of genetic counselling, combining theoretical and practical approaches with many clinical vignettes. It covers the psychosocial effects of genetic disorders on individuals, couples, and families; counselling techniques and the counselling session agenda; prenatal diagnosis counselling, cancer risk counselling, and genetic counselling with children and adolescents; the psychology of risk interpretation and decision making; and the influence of ethnocultural issues on counsellees and counsellor.