Objective To identify the ways in which physicians, patients and interpreters express
emotions, react to emotional expressions and/or coordinate the emotional interaction in …

Objective We analyse, for the first time, how companions intervene in the answers that an
adult patient with intellectual disabilities gives to their medical practitioner in primary care …

Empathic communication (EC) in healthcare occurs when patients express empathic
opportunities, such as emotions, to which doctors respond empathically. This interactional …

Objective Professional medical interpreters facilitate patient understanding of illness,
prognosis, and treatment options. Facilitating end of life discussions can be challenging. Our …

Due to migration and globalisation, the users of psychosocial and psychotherapeutic
services are becoming more international and heterogeneous, as are the first languages of …

The aim of this study is to explore how trainee interpreters deal with rapport-building
features in interpreter-mediated police interviews with victims in the United Kingdom and …

From its onset in early 2020, the Covid-19 (hereafter Covid) crisis has uncovered both the
insecurity about new technologies and their flexibility. In this chapter, we will attempt to …

In this article, patient activity in 8 audio recorded specialist consultations on fetal cardiology
is investigated in order to explore how, why and when patients tend to participate in …

The objective of this study, which was designed as part of a larger study, is to analyze the
healthcare interpreter's behaviour at micro-level in relation to ethics at macro-level …

This chapter reports findings from a single-case study on primary care visits involving a
general practitioner (GP), three unaccompanied foreign minors (UFMs) with low competence …