A Genetic Counseling Cultural Competence Toolkit


Health Literacy
    Cross Cultural Communication | Language Access Resources | Multilingual Resources | Interpreters and Translators

Health literacy is of critical importance to genetic counseling practice due to the complexity and density of the words and concepts we use in daily practice. What are you doing to assess your clients' health literacy? Do you have a variety of patient education materials, intake forms, informed consent forms to accommodate the needs of your clients? How does health literacy impact your practice and what are you doing about it?

Please review this introduction to health literacy on the National Libraries of Medicine website: http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/hlthlit.html  Then, spend more time exploring the resources that have been developed to help you deal with this issue.

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Disclaimer
The purpose of the Genetic Counseling Cultural Competence Toolkit (GCCCT) is to improve the delivery of culturally responsive, client-centered genetic counseling to diverse populations and to reduce health disparities. The GCCCT is an educational resource; any suggestions do not define the standards of clinical or educational practice. All cases and scenarios are hypothetical. The JEMF, NSGC and Nancy Steinberg Warren, MS, CGC will not be liable for any medical or psychosocial applications connected with the use of or reliance upon any information obtained from this website or associated links and resources.

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This work has been supported by the Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship, the 2009 grant from the Engelberg Foundation
to the National Society of Genetic Counselors, Inc.
© 2021 Nancy Steinberg Warren, MS, CGC, all rights reserved.