Case Preparation
"Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it's covered;
For inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered" — Stephen Cosgrove
“Every person is like all others, like some others, and like no others.”
- Proverb cited in: Doka, K.J. & Tucci, A.S (Eds.) (2009).
Living with Grief: Diversity and End-of-Life Care (p. 1). Washington, DC: Hospice Foundation of America.
Case Preparatory Work: Genetic Counseling Mary, a Prenatal Client with Intellectual Disabilities
Thanks to Carrie Prochniak, Master’s candidate in Genetic Counseling at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, for her work as a contributing author for this case.
Commentary by Brenda Finucane, MS, CGC, Executive Director, Elwyn Genetics, Elwyn, PA
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how reproductive options, decision making or genetic testing
may be influenced by the presence of mild intellectual disability in
a genetic counseling client.
- Determine the relative importance of steps in the genetic counseling
process when working with an adult with mild intellectual
disability.
- Identify online and community resources that contribute to case
preparatory work when providing genetic counseling to adults with
mild intellectual disability.
