Communication skills training for healthcare students working with people with intellectual disabilities

Metcalf, Elizabeth and Colgate, Robert 2019. Communication skills training for healthcare students working with people with intellectual disabilities. British Journal of Psych Advances 25 (2) , pp. 74-77. 10.1192/bja.2018.57

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Abstract

Effective communication skills are essential for all healthcare professionals. Specialist teaching on communicating with people with intellectual disabilities is often lacking, resulting in poorer healthcare and worse outcomes than in the general population. Working with professionally trained actors with intellectual disabilities, we developed an interprofessional workshop that sought to provide authentic communication skills training to enable healthcare students from various disciplines to communicate effectively with patients of all abilities. In a survey, students reported that they found the workshops rewarding and confidence-building, and that they learnt more about the roles of their interprofessional colleagues.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	2056-4678
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 04:34
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/117756

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