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- Title
'It's Challenging on a Personal Level'-Exploring the 'Lived Experience' of Australian and Canadian Prenatal Genetic Counselors.
- Authors
Menezes, Melody; Hodgson, Jan; Sahhar, Margaret; Aitken, MaryAnne; Metcalfe, Sylvia
- Abstract
Prenatal genetic counselors work with clients who are at risk of having a child with a fetal anomaly, or who have been diagnosed with a fetal anomaly. This can raise challenging ethical, moral and legal issues for both clients and counselors. Few studies have explored whether this type of work impacts on genetic counselors themselves. Interviews were conducted with 15 prenatal genetic counselors, five from Toronto, Canada and ten from Melbourne, Australia. A qualitative approach was used to allow for an in-depth exploration of the experiences of genetic counselors working in the prenatal setting. While participants reported that working in a prenatal setting affected them in several ways, this paper focuses on one particular unanticipated finding-that of the impact experienced by counselors from both countries while working when pregnant.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; CANADA; PRENATAL genetic testing; PRENATAL diagnosis; PREGNANCY &; psychology; ATTITUDE (Psychology); COMPUTER software; COUNSELORS; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (Psychology); EXPERIENCE; GENETIC counseling; GROUNDED theory; INTERVIEWING; PHENOMENOLOGY; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL personnel; RESEARCH funding; RISK perception; SELF-disclosure; QUALITATIVE research; JUDGMENT sampling; DATA analysis; INTERVIEW schedules; OCCUPATIONAL roles; CLIENT relations; THEMATIC analysis; INTER-observer reliability; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Genetic Counseling, 2010, Vol 19, Issue 6, p640
- ISSN
1059-7700
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10897-010-9315-z