Question

1) What are some ethical dilemmas that may arise from pursuing genetic counseling?

2) What are the pros and cons of genetic counseling?

3) Recalling the article you read for forum #3 regarding secondary traumatization for healthcare professionals, discuss how a genetic counselor may experience secondary traumatization.

Answer 1

1) Genetic counselling is nothing but the knowledge about the genetic aspects of illness. it is a type of medical test to identify chromosome, gene and protein.

some of the ethical dilemmas due to pursuing genetic counselling are

confidentiality and non- disclosure : trust and honest exchange of information is vey important

predictive test in children

sex selection via prenatal testing

surrogate motherhood

fetal tissue transplantation

2)Pros of genetic counselling

Early intervention and detection of disease helps for treatment like cancers

Early detection and understanding fetus might be born with down syndrome , taysachs disease and sickle cell anemia

better peace of mind for parents to be who aware of family history of particular disease condition.

appropriate testing for pregnancy

decision making regarding genetic testing of family planning.

cons of genetic counselling

testing may increase stress and anxiety in parents

negative impact on family and personal relation

cost effective

3) secondary traumatization is nothing but the indirect exposure to trauma

feeling fatigue , overwhelmed or may be even hopeless may experience in counsellors. it occurs when an individual is exposed to people with primary trauma health workers especially mental health care workers and social workers are mostly affected people. others include oncology staff, emergency staff and child care workers also affected.

it will make a bad impact on health proffesionals , negative changes in beliefs and feelings.