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Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues of individuals, group, or family interactional climates. Mental health problems can include psychological, social and somatic dimensions, which often make it hard for people to manage their lives and achieve their goals. Psychotherapy is aimed at these problems, and attempts to help people to solve them via a number of different approaches and techniques.
The term counseling is often used interchangeably with psychotherapy. It was originally adopted by Carl Rogers to distinguish his work from the more medically oriented psychotherapy but the difference has become blurred among lay people. Generally, counseling deals with ordinary every day problems and issues, while psychotherapy generally deals with deeper mental and emotional problems. Psychotherapy requires more intense training than counseling, and often tends to involve a longer time. (But see: brief, or strategic, therapy). Psychotherapeutic interventions are often designed to treat the client in the medical model, although not all psychotherapeutic approaches follow the model of "illness/cure", but are also short term. In this article the term can be taken to be the same as psychotherapy.
To emphasize the voluntary, free agency, consumer orientation of people seeking psychotherapy, they are often called clients, but psychotherapy as a method of treatment is regulated, at least in most Western countries, by the laws concerning patients and their rights. Commonly psychotherapy involves a therapist and client(s) — and in family therapy several family members or even other members from their social network — who discuss their issues in an effort to discover the underlying problems and to find constructive solutions. Because sensitive topics are often discussed during psychotherapy, therapists are expected, and usually legally bound, to respect client confidentiality.
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I just returned my first HIV result! (negative, of course, to start out with). Yay voluntary counseling and testing!
thekateness (Kate Finneran) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:27:21 -0000
I just returned my first HIV result! (negative, of course, to start out with). Yay voluntary counseling and testing!
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American Board of Genetic Counseling - Prepares and administers examinations and accredits training programs. Offers a range of information on examinations, guidelines, and training programs.
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Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors - CAGC - Establish minimum standards of practice and encourage professional growth. Includes certification, training, jobs, and conferences. Many documents use the PDF file format.
DNAprint Genomics inc. - Develop analytics and information resource products, including platforms for genotype pattern recognition for complex trait determination. Includes an overview of services, investor relations, and career opportunities.
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Dynacare Northwest, Inc. Cytogenetics Laboratory - Offers a range of tests including Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) for microdeletion syndromes. Karyotypes and ideograms of normal and abnormal chromosomes are included as examples.
Genassist, Inc. - Resources and genetic consultation for people with pregnancy questions related to inherited diseases, assisted conception, and pregnancy ultrasound.
Gendia - International network of academic and commercial laboratories from Europe and the US providing a range of services including paternity, maternity, twins, and relationship diagnostics.
Meta Description: [ gendia is an international network consisting of 16 closely collaborating laboratories. Gendia currently offers molecular tests for more than 300 genetic disorders. ]
Gendia - Genetic Diagnostics - International network of laboratories offering molecular tests for a range of disorders.
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Gene Analysis Service GmbH - Molecular biological and medical diagnostic service laboratory. Mutation screening by DNA sequencing for the detection of rare genetic diseases.
Gene Dx - Genetic testing and diagnosis company serving individuals and families suffering from severe hereditary disorders.
Gene Testing - Brief overview of gene testing: what it is, how it works, what are some of the pros and cons, what tests are available. Includes a guide to further resources.
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GeneClinics: Medical Genetics Knowledge Base - NIH funded, expert-authored descriptions of inherited disorders. Covers genetic testing in diagnosis and management and genetic counseling of patients.
GeneTests - A genetic testing resource including an introduction to genetic counseling and testing and a genetics laboratory directory. From the University of Washington.
Genetic Assays Inc. - Offers physicians, hospitals, and laboratories, molecular techniques for the gene level diagnosis and management of diseases. Also provide DNA testing for the determination of parentage/paternity.
Human Gene Testing - Article by Drs. Stuart Orkin and Gary Felsenfeld describing how basic research led to genetic testing, including how the discoveries of DNA, restriction enzymes, cloning, PCR (polymerase chain reaction) make tests for diseases like sickle-cell anemia and breast cancer possible.
Interleukin Genetics Incorporated - Performs genetic susceptibility testing services for common diseases which are treatable and preventable. Includes corporate and financial data, and job opportunities .
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Kimball Genetics - Genetic testing laboratory specializing in DNA analysis for common genetic disorders. Includes listing of tests available.
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Molecular Genetics Testing Laboratory: Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Disease Screen - Information about a test for seven common inherited diseases in the Ashkenazi Jewish population: Tay-Sachs disease, Canavan disease, cystic fibrosis, Gaucher disease, Bloom syndrome, familial dysautonomia and Fanconi anemia.
Mountain States Genetics Network - Share medical genetics knowledge and resources with other health care practitioners, patients, and caregivers. Features an overview of services, chromosome and DNA testing, education, and news.
National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center of the US - Provides a large collection of resources on birth defects and on genetic/metabolic screening of infants as a component of public health.
National Society of Genetic Counselers - NSGC - Promote the profession as a recognized part of health care delivery, education, research and public policy. Includes a searchable database of counselors.
New York University Department of Pediatrics Human Genetics Program - Offers evaluation, testing and counseling for genetic diseases with information on faculty, clinical services, molecular genetics laboratory, and research interests
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OHSU Genetic Service Laboratories - Provide laboratory testing and diagnostic evaluation of rare and unusual inherited metabolic diseases. Includes information on the faculty, education, research, and related resources.
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South East of Scotland Genetic Service - Offer counselling services for patients, and provide a range of educational resources for health professionals and students. Includes information leaflets, degree modules, and research studies.
The Gene Trust - Goal is to establish a database of information about people, including physical characteristics, health histories, and responses to treatments and thus speed up the rate of medical advances based on this genetic knowledge .
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The Robert Guthrie Biochemical Genetics Laboratory - Diagnostic testing for inborn errors of metabolism with an emphasis on metabolic myopathies and mitochondrial diseases. Includes print-off forms and research updates.
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