The Social Worker's Role in Genetic Counseling

The role of social work in integrated health care environments can be divided into three broad categories: educational counselors, therapists, and resource liaison (Mealer et al., 1981). Areas officially recommending social work include prenatal and genetic counseling, support for understanding of medical facts in personal and collective treatment for older children with diagnostic problems Health care providers Contribute to their child rearing and help team members understand the psychosocial factors affecting family care (Starr and Zirpoli, 1976; Mealer et al., 1981; Fertel and Reiss, 1997).

The role of social work in integrated health care environments can be divided into three broad categories: educational counselors, therapists, and resource liaison (Mealer et al., 1981). Areas officially recommending social work include prenatal and genetic counseling, support for understanding of medical facts in personal and collective treatment for older children with diagnostic problems Health care providers Contribute to their child rearing and help team members understand the psychosocial factors affecting family care (Starr and Zirpoli, 1976; Mealer et al., 1981; Fertel and Reiss, 1997). There is extensive research on the potential psychological and social impacts of cracks on affected children and their families but extensive parent reporting provided by social workers of fracture teams or similar experts Psychosocial problems and interventions Has not been widely practiced. Record.

Medical social workers specialize in understanding the psychosocial problems and medical needs of many children who may encounter craniofacial differences. Training of family system theory means that social workers are aware that the whole family is affected by congenital anomalies in children and that efforts are included in the evaluation and intervention of the family as a whole (Mealer et al., 1981). Other challenges in the areas of income, housing, education, legal status and family stability will have a major impact on the use of health and healthcare (Marple, 2015).

The aim of this practice is to demonstrate that a genetic clinic as a member of the genetics team needs a social worker and the hypothesis that social work needs to be involved in the field of medical genetics. Research was completed through literature research in the field of counseling in genetic counseling, participation of social work in genetic clinics, role of care in genetic counseling, and psychological research on genetic counseling. Literature in these fields is very limited. In the summer of 1971, a questionnaire requesting information on the role of social work in these clinics was sent to 90 genetic clinics.

In the past 50 years, the field of genetic counseling evolved, often changed roles, and adjusted the value of genetic counselors in this area. This progress can be monitored by reviewing literature on genetic counseling for decades and comparing the basic values ​​for a specific time period. In this paper, evaluation of genetic counseling service is based on four studies conducted in the 1970s and early 2000s. These studies are related to genetic counseling of neural tube defects proposed by Dumerne muscular dystrophy of Morris and Lawrence (1976), Emery et al. (1972), the role of genetic counseling in interdisciplinary metabolic clinics such as Hartley et al. (2010), and genetic counseling for people with mental illness (Hill and Sahhar 2006)