is at high risk of developing a mental illness in the future (Hoop et al., 2008a). Of interest, psychiatrists with recent genetic training were less likely to believe these tests would be useful. These beliefs, coupled with gaps in psychiatrists’ knowledge base, make it unsurprising that very few psychiatrists refer patients for genetic testing or counseling (80% of psychiatrists ordered no genetic tests from 2002–2006, according to Hoop et al. (2008b)); 71% of respondents in the Finn et al. survey (2005) had not referred patients for genetic counseling in 2001.
