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Telephone counseling can provide a convenient, accessible, and valuable source of information to the general public, health care providers, and other professionals. In the genetic counseling profession, telephone counseling is often associated with teratogen information services. However, genetic counselors routinely utilize the telephone in a number of different counseling encounters. Nevertheless, the literature provides very little guidance to how that encounter might be conducted, what information should be obtained and provided, or how the encounter should be documented. We present a brief overview of the history of telephone counseling, a description of the major differences between telephone counseling and a face-to-face counseling session, and a framework to optimize a telephone counseling session.
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Ormond, K.E., Haun, J., Cook, L. et al. Recommendations for Telephone Counseling. Journal of Genetic Counseling 9, 63–71 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009433224504
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