An outstanding and significant addition to the genetic counseling literature, filling a curricular gap in medical genetics and genetic counseling training programs...Dr. Weil has composed a comprehensive discussion of the psychosocial aspects of genetic counseling; his scholarship is of the highest quality. The text is of interest to genetic counselors, genetic counseling students, clinical geneticists, genetic residents, obstetricians, pediatricians, social workers and any other health professionals who deal with patients and families with genetic or potentially genetic disorders.

• 1. The Counselee as Individual ; 2. The Counselee in a Social Context ; 3. Techniques of Psychosocial Genetic Counseling ; 4. The Structure of Genetic Counseling Interactions ; 5. Nondirective Counseling, conselee Autonomy and Decision Making ; 6. Specific Counseling Situations and Counselees ; 7. The Ethnocultural Imperative ; 8. Genetic Counseling in an Expanding Social Context

An outstanding and significant addition to the genetic counseling literature, filling a curricular gap in medical genetics and genetic counseling training programs...Dr. Weil has composed a comprehensive discussion of the psychosocial aspects of genetic counseling; his scholarship is of the highest quality. The text is of interest to genetic counselors, genetic counseling students, clinical geneticists, genetic residents, obstetricians, pediatricians, social workers and any other health professionals who deal with patients and families with genetic or potentially genetic disorders.

• 1. The Counselee as Individual ; 2. The Counselee in a Social Context ; 3. Techniques of Psychosocial Genetic Counseling ; 4. The Structure of Genetic Counseling Interactions ; 5. Nondirective Counseling, conselee Autonomy and Decision Making ; 6. Specific Counseling Situations and Counselees ; 7. The Ethnocultural Imperative ; 8. Genetic Counseling in an Expanding Social Context

An outstanding and significant addition to the genetic counseling literature, filling a curricular gap in medical genetics and genetic counseling training programs...Dr. Weil has composed a comprehensive discussion of the psychosocial aspects of genetic counseling; his scholarship is of the highest quality. The text is of interest to genetic counselors, genetic counseling students, clinical geneticists, genetic residents, obstetricians, pediatricians, social workers and any other health professionals who deal with patients and families with genetic or potentially genetic disorders.

• 1. The Counselee as Individual ; 2. The Counselee in a Social Context ; 3. Techniques of Psychosocial Genetic Counseling ; 4. The Structure of Genetic Counseling Interactions ; 5. Nondirective Counseling, conselee Autonomy and Decision Making ; 6. Specific Counseling Situations and Counselees ; 7. The Ethnocultural Imperative ; 8. Genetic Counseling in an Expanding Social Context