This Editorial provides background information to inform the report from the United Kingdom (UK) and Eire Association of Genetic Nurses and Counsellors (AGNC) Supervision Working Group on Genetic Counselling Supervision. We begin by introducing the context of practice as a genetic counselor in the UK and then follow with an overview of events that have happened in our profession that led to the need and creation of the report. Genetic counseling supervision has become instrumental to our practice, training and registration as genetic counselors in the UK.
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Middleton, A., Cowley, L. & Clarke, A. Editorial on Supervision. J Genet Counsel 16, 123–125 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10897-006-9063-2
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