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Rodríguez Vicente, Natalia, Jemina Napier and Raquel de Pedro Ricoy. 2021. Dialogue Interpreting and Person-Centred Care in a Clinical Mental Healthcare Setting. In Wang, Caiwen and Binghan Zheng (郑冰寒), eds. Empirical Studies of Translation and Interpreting: the post-structuralist approach (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies). London: Routledge. pp. 29–48.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
This chapter examines the intersection between dialogue interpreting and the person-centred care approach to healthcare delivery and communication. It focuses on the enactment of the following principles in interpreter-mediated talk: respecting the patient’s autonomy, consideration of the patient’s spirituality, and relational continuity. The excerpts discussed were extracted from audio-recordings of authentic consultations that took place in an outpatient mental healthcare clinic in Scotland. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of the data, the study posits that interpreters may consciously or non-consciously enable or hamper person-centred communication through their performance, and illustrates how the way in which interpreters influence person-centred communication largely depends on the alignment, or lack thereof, that exists between the interactional goals of the primary speakers’ utterances and the interpreters’ renditions. Finally, this study suggests that interpreters’ awareness of the guiding values of person-centred care is crucial to ensure that linguistically diverse patients fully benefit from such values because interpreters make interpreting decisions based on their understanding of the clinical, linguistic, and interpersonal goals at play in the encounter.
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