Genetic Counseling

Genetic counselors help identify families at possible risk of a genetic condition by gathering and analyzing family history and inheritance patterns and calculating chances of recurrence. They provide information about genetic testing and related procedures. This book is designed to provide students with the foundation on which to build the skills to be a successful genetic counselor. Students will explore contexts and situations in genetic counseling that practicing genetic counselors are likely to face.

Print ISBN: 9781682507889 | 150 $ | 2022 | Hardcover

Subject: Psychology and Counselling

Editor: Jennifer Garst

About the editor: Jennifer Garst holds PhD in neuroscience. Her expertise includes lifestyle psychiatry; nutritional psychiatry; neuropsychology; neuroprogression; bipolar disorders; psychotic disorders; stigma and mental health in medical students. She has also keen interest in areas of topics psychosis; depression; self-harm; suicide; mania; bipolar illness; fibromyalgia; personality disorders; psychotherapy; psychopharmacology.