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Rauch JB, Curtiss CR. 1992. Taking a family health/ genetic history: An ethnocultural learning guide and handbook. Baltimore, MD: University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Social Work, 104 pp.

Annotation: This guide is for child welfare workers and other human service providers involved with foster children and children who are being adopted. The objective is to equip child welfare workers to obtain genetic family histories from clients with diverse cultural backgrounds. Genetic counselors and other human service professionals will also be able to use portions of the guide. The guide explains a procedure for obtaining family genetic histories, reviews basic genetics, describes genetic services, discusses attributes of cultural competence, presents a content and process framework for task-focused ethnocultural learning. Finally, it offers suggestions for working with interpreters, and gives pointers on interviewing involuntary clients. A list of ethnocultural and genetic resource organizations and a bibliography are provided. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Child health, Cultural diversity, Culturally competent services, Family health, Genealogy, Genetic counseling, Genetic counselors, Genetics, Medical history

Wisconsin Clinical Genetics Center and Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development. 1984. Genetic family history: An aid to better health of adoptive children. Washington, DC: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 122 pp.

Annotation: This conference, put on by the Continuing Education in Genetics for Adoption Workers project, included sessions on historical and legal aspects, ethical and social work practice issues, and clinical genetics. Specific topics were the Wisconsin adoption records law, views by a consumer panel of adoptees and adoptive parents on the importance of the genetic history for both medical and social reasons, principles of genetics, genetics counseling, social work practice issues, obtaining a genetic history, support services for families with a genetic diagnosis, working with resistant and reticent clients, and prenatal diagnosis.

Keywords: Adoption, Genealogy, Genetic counseling, Medical history
   

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