Full Description
Communicating with patients about genetic concepts is fraught with complications. In addition to the hazy takeaway messages and the likelihood of peripheral findings, the diverse cultural backgrounds of patients in a genetics clinic present another layer of challenge for clinicians and genetic counselors in their aim to communicate important findings effectively and respectfully.
This book provides practical advice to assist genetic counselors, geneticists, and other health professionals wanting to engage appropriately with different clients from different communities -- patients who are hearing and/or visually impaired, patients with diverse sex development or religious backgrounds, and those who are available only through interpreter or telephone consultation. With chapter-based practical entries on effective communication with these and other diverse population groups, this volume is an invaluable pocket tool for clinicians and counselors to effectively get the message across.
Contents
Foreword ; Lauren Kerzin-Storrar ; Definition of Genertic Councelling ; Preface ; Jennifer Wiggins and Anna Middleton ; Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; 1: Communicating with Clients who are D/deaf or hard of hearing ; Anna Middleton and Christina Palmer ; 2: Communicating with Clients who are visually impaired ; Georgina Hall and Alison Clarke ; 3: Communicating with Clients who have diverse sex development ; Lih-Mei Liao and Margaret Simmonds ; 4: Communicatin with Clients from the Jewish community ; Sara Levene ; 5: Communicating with Clients from the Irish Traveller community ; Jacqueline Turner ; 6: Communicating with Clients from the Pakistani Muslim community ; Mushtaq Ahmed ; 7: Communicating with Clients who disclose sexual abuse ; Alan Phillips ; 8: Communicating with Teenagers ; Anna Gregorowski ; 9: Communicating with Children who have intellectual disability ; Jeremy Turk ; 10: Communicating with Clients who are terminally ill ; Anna-Marie Stevens and Jayne Wood ; 11: Communicating with Clients who have dementia ; Rachel Taylor ; 12: Communication from an interpreter's perspective ; Nicki Cornwall ; 13: Communication via the telephone or video conferencing ; Kelly Kohut and Kathryn Myhill
