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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
