Unveiling genetic counseling skills: Developing an online training course and analyzing counselor communication practices.

ABSTRACT: Despite the pivotal role of communication skills in genetic counseling, communication strategies employed by genetic counselors in their current practice remain largely unexplored. The field of genetic counseling could benefit from updated simulated genetic counseling sessions conducted by genetic counselors illustrating a diversity of skills. This paper outlines the development and evaluation of updated simulations used to develop an online training course to identify genetic counseling skills and to assess how commonly these skills are used. Practicing genetic counselors in the United States were recruited to counsel trained standardized patients across six pretest and posttest simulated sessions in cancer, prenatal, and cardiology genetics settings. Sessions were coded using the novel G

SUBMITTER: Cragun DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11934008 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature