Getting the Message Across
Communication with Diverse Populations in Clinical Genetics
Published on 14. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-19-975741-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"I LOVED this book! I was enthused reading it, the chapters are superb, detailed and in-depth, intelligently written and full of so many practical tips. They are obviously written by real practice experts."Lauren Kerzin-Storrar
Consultant Genetic Counselor and MSc Course Director
Manchester, England
"Provides a guided tour for enhancing provision of proactive client-centered genetic counseling. It is appropriate reading for students as well as seasoned counselors working in any setting." --Journal of Genetic Counseling
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Genetic counselors; clinical geneticists; primary care providers; medical students; child-life specialists; social workers; hospitalists; clinical instructors; care providers in any healthcare setting.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
351 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-975741-1 (9780199757411)
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Additional editions
Jennifer Wiggins | Anna Middleton
Getting the Message Across
Communication with Diverse Populations in Clinical Genetics
E-Book
01/2013
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€47.49
Available for download
Persons
Jennifer Wiggins is a registered genetic counselor (UK) who has worked in clinical genetics services for 17 years. She has specialised in both pre-natal and cancer genetics. She has been the Vice-Chair of the Association of Genetic Nurses and Counselors and is a mentor and assessor for the Genetic Counselor Registration Board (UK and ROI) and is currently a senior genetic counselor at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Anna Middleton has had two parallel careers, the first as a registered genetic counselor working in various regional clinical genetics services in the UK and the second as a social scientist exploring the ethical implications of genetic and genomic technologies. She has a PhD in Genetics and Psychology and is currently working as an Ethics Researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She has been the Vice-Chair of the Genetic Counselor Registration Board and on the editorial board for the Journal of Genetic Counseling (US).
Anna Middleton has had two parallel careers, the first as a registered genetic counselor working in various regional clinical genetics services in the UK and the second as a social scientist exploring the ethical implications of genetic and genomic technologies. She has a PhD in Genetics and Psychology and is currently working as an Ethics Researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She has been the Vice-Chair of the Genetic Counselor Registration Board and on the editorial board for the Journal of Genetic Counseling (US).
Content
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