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The Skill of Eliciting Unspoken Emotions

Beth A. Tarini, MD, MS

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012;166(1):95-96. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.767

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Every screening program engages in a battle to maximize benefits and minimize harms.¹ While concerns about harms from screening often focus on physical ones such as unnecessary testing or treatment, psychological harms can be equally damaging and lasting, living on with the patient long after the screening process has ended.² It is the potential for identification of heterozygotes (ie, carriers) through newborn screening to cause psychological harm that Farrell and colleagues³ examine in their study published in this issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

The study investigators audiotaped and analyzed resident and attending physician conversations with standardized patients to evaluate how well physicians assessed parents' emotional response after learning that their child had been identified as a carrier for sickle cell or cystic fibrosis. The theory behind the study is that eliciting and understanding parents' emotional reactions is critical to identifying . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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