Description: Lecture, four hours. Requisite: at least four hours visiting/observing/shadowing at least two resource clinics/centers and at least four hours observing bereavement group(s) in past year. Limited to Genetic Counseling students. Focus on advanced psychosocial topics in genetic counseling along with social and legal issues in genetics and genetic counseling. Topics include family dynamics, burden of disease, crisis intervention, dynamics of grief and bereavement, multicultural sensitivity, coping mechanisms, transference and countertransference, and disability organizations and advocacy. Practice exercises include role-playing in range of advanced psychosocial situations, shadowing support groups and families, simulating patient full session under different scenarios including with interpreters and group presentations. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0