Session # Pre-Conference Symposium

What’s Loss Got to do With It? Working with Grief as a Genetic Counselor

• Explore models of grief theory and narrative medicine and their applicability to many areas of genetic counseling practice, including prenatal, pediatrics and adult medicine, as well as cancer, neurology and cardiology.
• Evaluate how case examples of patients and counselors working around areas of grief and loss in a variety of clinical specialties can further the integration of theory, tools and techniques into participants’ own practices.
• Discuss how genetic counselors can engage themselves and clients around issues of grief and loss to advance the profession and their own practice.

• Speakers: Ambry Speaker: Amanda Bergner, MS, CGC
• Conference: NSGC 2017
• Date: Wednesday, Sep 13, 2017 8:00am - 2:00pm