Handbook of Genetic Counseling/Hyper-extensibility
< Handbook of Genetic CounselingHyper-extensibility
Contracting
- Review a few things about medical history
- Review a few things about family history
- Physical exam
- Make any testing recommendations
- Answer any questions
Psychosocial Issues
- Issue of nothing being wrong…may have to deal with the possibility of something else being wrong than the original thought (glaucoma/nearsightedness/Stickler's)
- Mom not recognizing the hyper-extensibility of herself/children/family.
Other possible counseling issues
- Dominant inheritance (Stickler's syndrome, inheritance)
- Recessive inheritance
- Multifactorial inheritance
Notes
The information in this outline was last updated in 2000.
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