Prenatal Genetic Counseling

Practical Support for Prenatal Diagnostics, Decision-Making, and Dealing with Uncertainty

Sam Riedijk, Karin Diderich
Elsevier S&T
226 pages
ISBN: 9780128233313
October 2021

This book was co-created by health care practitioners, scientists, patients and students to provide insights and direction for offering support to couples faced with fetal anomalies. It provides a foundation for new research and a one-stop source for physicians, genetic counselors, psychologists, social workers, general practitioners, grief workers, translational researchers, and administrators seeking to work in the field of clinical genomics ethically and in full consideration of patients’ psychological well-being. Here, an international team of experienced counselors and clinician-scientists lay out the range of methods and technologies applied in prenatal decision-making, including NIPT; invasive testing with microarray analysis or whole genome sequencing; ultrasound screening; and prenatal diagnosis for known hereditary conditions, among others.