Assessing and attending to psychosocial concerns in genetic counseling: Proposing the BATHE method
Tia Moscarello,
Emily Higgs,
Elizabeth Pollard
et al.
Abstract:The process of identifying and responding to patients' social, emotional, and psychological concerns is a required skill for training and practicing genetic counselors. Patients' health outcomes are improved when genetic counselors attend to these “psychosocial” concerns. Still, the process of eliciting, assessing, and attending to patients' psychosocial concerns in the genetic counseling setting is not well defined in the literature nor is it performed consistently. Tools that do exist are often questionnaire… Show more
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