Dear Colleagues,

Rehabilitation can be a challenging process for both patients and healthcare professionals. Beyond the clinical setting, participants’ daily lives, including family members and daily occupations, can contribute to the quality of the rehabilitation process. The way in which healthcare professionals communicate and relate with the patient can play a central role in this process, including in the quality of patient participation and associated outcomes. Extensive research on clinical communication has been conducted in the fields of medicine and nursing, but much more research is also needed in other health areas. This Special Issue is focused on clinical communication in the field of rehabilitation. Topics include empathy, informing and planning, non-verbal aspects and features of the physical context, difficult situations and emotions, relation-, patient- and professional-centered approaches, or inter-professional interactions, in allied health areas such as physio-therapy, speech therapy, and those involving complementary exams such as radiology or cardio-pulmonology, cognitive rehabilitation, etc., in addition to medicine and nursing.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Healthcare.

Prof. Dr. Irene P. Carvalho
Prof. Dr. Artemisa R Dores
Guest Editors

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• patient–provider communication
• empathy
• emotions
• difficult communications
• interprofessional communication
• neucognitive rehabilitation
• bad news
• health professionals