Getting the Message Across

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).

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