Genetic Counseling Assignment
Genetic Counseling
With the increase in knowledge around genetic issues, it is important that all health care providers are prepared to have thorough genetic-based discussions now with their patients. In this assignment, you will synthesize your knowledge into a client case with a real or potential genetic health-related illness.
General Guidelines:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
- Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments.
- This assignment requires that at least three additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.
- You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite for similarity score & plagiarism check.
Directions:
Write about (1,000-1,250 words) addressing a client case that might benefit from the process of genetic counseling. Describe the reason for the genetic counseling based on the findings from your completion of the family health portrait. Discuss the possible reactions the patient may have to your counseling and how to avoid negative reactions. Imagine this assignment as if you are giving this counseling to a patient and be sure to discuss the following:
- Health
- Prevention
- Screening
- Diagnostics
- Prognostics
- Selection of treatment
- Monitoring of treatment effectiveness
RESOURCES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). My family health portrait: A tool from the Surgeon General. http://kahuna.clayton.edu/jqu/FHH/html/index.html
Docherty, A. R., Moscati, A., Dick, D., Savage, J. E., Salvatore, J. E., Cooke, M., Aliev, F., Moore, A. A., Riley, B. P., Admins, D. E., Peterson, R., Webb, B. T., Bacanu, S. A., & Kendler, K. S. (2018). Polygenic prediction of the phenome, across ancestry, in emerging adulthood. Psychological Medicine, 48(11), 1814-1823. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717003312
Berberich, A. J., & Hegele, R. A. (2019). The complex molecular genetics of familial hypercholesterolaemia. Nature Reviews. Cardiology, 16(1), 9-20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-018-0052-6
Salloum, R. G., George, T. J., Silver, N., Markham, M-J., Hall, J. M., Guo, Y., Bian, J., & Shenkman, E. A. (2018). Rural-urban and racial-ethnic differences in awareness of direct-to-consumer genetic testing. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5190-6
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