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Genetic Counselling and the Community (GENE90005)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2017
Overview
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This subject will not be offered until 2018.
This subject will facilitate understanding of the wider community issues and how these influence genetic counselling. Discussion will focus on multi-cultural issues and conflict between these and the Australian context of genetic counselling. Ethical issues inherent in genetic counselling and predictive testing will be explored. Issues of disability within families and the community will be explored.Students will complete an 8 week supervised placement within the community, over 2 days per week.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject is designed to enable students to:
- Understand the issues and problems in accessing genetic programs in the community eg screening, predictive testing;
- Articulate and critically evaluate the impact of culture in accessing community programs and genetic counselling interviews;
- Reflect on the ethical issues in genetics and in genetic counselling in particular;
- Articulate the process of community referrals for families and individuals;
- Understand the rationale and principles of models of counselling within selected predictive testing programs; and
- Observe and participate in selected interviews within a community setting.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject it is expected that students will be able to:
- Observe and practise the principles of how to work in a respectful and ethical way with people who come for counselling;
- Identify and analyse theories of counselling that can be integrated into clinical interviews and genetic counselling practice;
- Make appropriate community referrals;
- Communicate effectively and understand the principles of establishing a relationship;
- Locate, critically evaluate and use relevant literature and professional information to inform the practice of genetic counselling; and
- Understand issues of disability within the family, the community and the impact for the genetic counsellor.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- Assessment on 5 point scale at end of placement – 50%
- Reflective essay on placement – 2000 words 50%
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2017
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
Classroom and community agency.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
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