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Title Getting the message across : communication with diverse populations in clinical genetics / edited by Jennifer Wiggins and Anna Middleton
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 204 pages) : illustrations
Contents Clients who are deaf or hard of hearing / Anna Middleton and Christina Palmer -- Clients who are visually impaired / Georgina Hall and Alison Clarke -- Clients who have diverse sex development / Lih-Mei Liao and Margaret Simmonds -- The Jewish community / Sara Levene -- The Irish Traveller community / Jacqueline Turner -- The Pakistani Muslim community / Mushtaq Ahmed -- Clients who disclose sexual abuse / Alan Phillips -- Teenagers / Anna Gregorowski -- Children who have intellectual disability / Jeremy Turk -- Clients who are terminally ill / Anna-Marie Stevens and Dr Jayne Wood -- Clients who have dementia / Rachel Taylor -- Communication from an interpreter's perspective / Nicki Cornwall -- Communication via the telephone or video conferencing / Kelly Kohut and Kathryn Myhill
Summary 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 heari
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Genetic counseling -- Great Britain
Genetic disorders -- Patients -- Services for -- Great Britain
Cross-cultural counseling -- Great Britain
Intercultural communication -- Great Britain
Communication in medicine -- Great Britain
Cultural pluralism.
People with disabilities.
Genetic Counseling -- methods
Communication Barriers
Cultural Diversity
Disabled Persons
physically handicapped.
handicapped.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
People with disabilities
Cultural pluralism
Communication in medicine
Cross-cultural counseling
Genetic counseling
Genetic disorders -- Patients -- Services for
Intercultural communication
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Wiggins, Jennifer
Middleton, Anna
ISBN 9780199977376
0199977372
1299940331
9781299940338