HUM GEN 404Advanced Genetic Counseling Skills
Human Genetics · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Genetic Counseling students. Focus on advanced psychosocial topics in genetic counseling along with social and legal issues in genetics and genetic counseling. Topics include family dynamics, burden of disease, crisis intervention, dynamics of grief and bereavement, multicultural sensitivity, coping mechanisms, transference and countertransference, and disability organizations and advocacy. Practice exercises include role-playing in range of advanced psychosocial situations, shadowing support groups and families, simulating patient full session under different scenarios including with interpreters and group presentations.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: at least four hours visiting/observing/shadowing at least two resource clinics/centers and at least four hours observing bereavement group(s) in past year.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.