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Genetic Counselling and the Community (GENE90005) // Further information
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A book of selected readings will be available. Texts also available in Library at GHSV.
Recommended texts and other resources
Doka, K.J. (1989). Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrow, New York: Lexington Book.
Herbert, M. (1996). Supporting Bereaved and Dying Children and their Parents, Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd.
Kubler-Ross, E. (1983). On Children and Death: How Children and Their Parents Can and Do Cope With Death, New York: Touchstone.
Wright, B. (1992). Skills for Caring: Loss and Grief, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. - Subject notes
Community Placement
Objectives:
• This placement is designed to enable students to:
• Understand the role of community agencies in the practice of genetic counselling;
• Understand and reflect on the diverse experience of families with a community agency and the complex, individual factors that influence this experience;
• Articulate the process of community referrals for families and individuals;
• Understand the complex factors that impact on family functioning, within the community;
• Reflect on individual difference in families and the responses within families to various situations;
• Reflect on and articulate the role of the genetic counsellor; and
• Observe and participate in selected interviews in a community setting.
Generic Skills:
• On completion of the placement, it is expected that students will be able to:
• Understand the role of various community agencies, and referral patterns;
• Identify the complexity of individual and family responses to disability, chronic illness and grief;
• Begin to understand the family with the society, and the impact of various factors on family and individual functioning;
• Consider the need for assessment of individual experience and the impact of this on a genetic counselling interview;
• Observe the professional practice and roles of various professionals in a community setting; and
• Understand the role of the genetic counsellor in relation to other professionals in the community. - Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Genetic Counselling
Last updated: 3 November 2022