Respect for autonomy of clients and helping clients to achieve the good they desire are now
recurring themes in genetic counseling literature. In professional discourses on the clinical …

Respect for autonomy in genetic counseling is generally understood as a negative right: as
clients' right to noninterference in decision-making. In order to promote client autonomy …

Complicated shadows: a critique of autonomy in genetic counseling Page 30 CHAPTER 2
COMPLICATED SHADOWS: A CRITIQUE OF AUTONOMY IN GENETIC COUNSELING …

This chapter defines autonomy and its role in genetic counseling practice. It identifies
limitations of autonomy as a primary guiding ethical principle in genetic counseling practice …

In genetic counseling, facilitation of autonomous decision-making is seen as a primary aim
and respect for autonomy is used to justify a nondirective counseling approach whereby …

Respect for individual autonomy is a strong tradition in genetic counseling. The profession
arose in conjunction with prenatal diagnostic technology and the need to provide …

In this article we use a variety of philosophical literature to support and clarify the tenets and
importance of a form of nondirective genetic counseling. We do this by referring to the …

For three decades nondirectiveness has served as the central ethos for genetic counseling.
It has evolved from narrow definitions defining what should not be done to broad definitions …

Nondirective genetic counseling developed as a means of promoting informed and
independent decision-making. To the extent that it minimizes risks of coercion, this …

Genetic counselors in the United States are almost exclusively guided by the principle of
client autonomy in their interactions with counselees (Fletcher and Wertz 1987b). Autonomy …