J Genet Couns. 1995 Sep;4(3):151-67. doi: 10.1007/BF01408406.

Resistance and adherence to the norms of genetic counseling.

Journal of genetic counseling

F Brunger, A Lippman

PMID: 24234366 DOI: 10.1007/BF01408406

Abstract

Genetic counseling for women of advanced maternal age who are considering prenatal testing continues to be based on a principle of nondirectiveness. We interviewed 11 genetic counseling students and four counselors about how they experience and manage, in practice, the tensions between the ideology of nondirectiveness and the acknowledged reality that one can never be truly nondirective. We found that our respondents creatively resolve this tension-simultaneously resisting and adhering to the values of nondirectiveness and information-giving-in individual and situation-specific ways. This resolution is facilitated by the extent to which information given to counselees is fluid, mobile and context-dependent, but these very features of "information" also have critical implications for both the norms and the practice of genetic counseling.

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