Background Shared decision making (SDM) is generally treated as good practice in health‐
care interactions. Conversation analytic research has yielded detailed findings about …

In this chapter, 1 I will use conversation analysis to explore some themes that are central in
the clinical theory and practice of psychoanalysis. These themes include interpretation …

Abstract Background and Purpose Patient participation is nowadays considered important
for high quality patient care. Although the literature on health care professions provides …

Three decades of conversation analytic investigations of medical interaction have produced
a rich collection of findings of sociological interest, from a diverse array of encounters. This …

The participation of patients in making decisions about their care is especially important
towards the end of life because palliative care decisions involve extensive uncertainty and …

Allwood, R., Pilnick, A., O'Brien, R., Goldberg, S., Harwood, R., & Beeke, S.(2017). Should I
stay or should I go? How healthcare professionals close encounters with people with …

In activation encounters such as vocational rehabilitation, clients are expected to take an
active part in the process of making individual plans and counsellors regularly elicit …

Hypothetical questions (HQs) are a special class of conditional question that seek a
response by proposing a “what-if” situation. It is not clear to what extent view testing HQs …

Background and purpose Communication skills are essential for physiotherapy practice. It
has been shown that patients, especially those with chronic pain problems, are more …

Purpose Nursing is theorised to be a component of person-centred care. Communicative
constructions of person-centred caring are a topic that needs to be studied in consultations …