Bernadette M Watson

Dados Biográficos

ID90567
NOMEBernadette M Watson
PRENOMESBernadette M
SOBRENOMEWatson
ASSINATURAWATSON B M
AFILIAÇÕESThe University of Queensland
ORCID0000-0003-2419-7752
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES80
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1999
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • Balancing Good Medicine and Good Communication

    Susan C Baker, Bernadette M WatsonARTICLEHealth Communication2026

    In this study, we explore communication between doctors and patients in health consultations from the doctor's perspective. Traditionally, health communication research has focused on patient perspectives and interpersonal issues in the health context. We argue that, although patient perspectives are important and there are interpersonal aspects, intergroup issues are more salient, and we need to also consider the doctor's views on the health con…

  • If doctors ask me to talk, I will talk”

    Open AccessXixi Wang, Bernadette M WatsonARTICLEAsian journal of social science2025Referências: 6

  • Mainland Chinese students’ psychological adaptation to Hong Kong

    Open AccessXiaoyan Ivy Wu, Stefano Occhipinti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2025Citada por: 2Referências: 43

    Mainland Chinese students (MCSs) represent the largest non-local student group in Hong Kong and their adaptation experiences require more research attention than exists.This study investigates MCSs' psychological adaptation to Hong Kong with a language and social psychological approach by invoking Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language (L2 WTC).Survey results were collected from 372 MCSs study…

  • The role of L2 WTC and accommodative encounters with locals in Mainland Chinese students’ sociocultural adaptation to Hong Kong

    Open AccessXiaoyan Ivy Wu, Stefano Occhipinti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2025Citada por: 1Referências: 46

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  • Exploring Foreign Domestic Workers’ Perceived Contextual Factors That Influence Their Participation in Medical Consultations

    Xixi Wang, Bernadette M WatsonARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Foreign domestic workers have reported various health problems after moving to Hong Kong, which suggests the need for them to seek medical attention. Yet, much uncertainty exists about their perception of healthcare experiences as patients, particularly how they perceive their communication with ethnic-discordant healthcare providers. Drawing on foreign domestic workers' perspectives, we extracted non-interpersonal factors from Street's ecologica…

  • Metaphorical language and psychopathological symptoms

    Open AccessAmy Han Qiu, D Tay et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2024

    This study establishes symptom-level metaphor usage patterns as a previously overlooked but interesting avenue in trauma evaluation, treatment, and research. While the study is confined to a single context, it nevertheless reveals the potential for metaphor research findings to be incorporated as useful materials in psychology education and therapist training

  • Obituary

    Open AccessLiz Jones, Bernadette M WatsonARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2024

  • Sentinel Events and Miscommunication What do we know in 2021

    Bernadette M Watson, Xiaoyan Ivy WuARTICLEHealth Communication2023

    The paper explored the extent to which hospital appointed official root cause analysis (RCA) panels consider antecedent and proximal events when they investigate communication related sentinel events (CRSEs) in hospitals. It also explored which CRSEs are most common in the hospital setting in Hong Kong and the communication modes most commonly associated with CRSEs. The data consisted of Risk Alert and Annual Report on SEs issued by the Hong Kong…

  • The role of language use and communication in Mainland Chinese students’ cross-cultural adaptation to Hong Kong

    Xiaoyan Ivy Wu, Bernadette M Watson et al.ARTICLELanguage and Intercultural…2023Citada por: 4Referências: 6

    Mainland Chinese students' (MCSs') cross-cultural adaptation experiences in Hong Kong have remained under-researched. Our study investigates this phenomenon with a language and social psychology approach and explores the role of Cantonese ability and communication with locals. We invoked Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) to investigate the intergroup communication between MCSs and locals. Thematic analysis of ten semi-structured interviews…

  • Metaphors and trauma

    Open AccessHan Qiu, Bernadette M Watson et al.ARTICLELingua2022Referências: 1

  • How Do Patients Define Satisfaction? The Role of Patient Perceptions of Their Participation and Health Provider Emotional Expression

    Susan C Baker, Susan Baker et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2021

    Patient satisfaction is important to patient outcomes. Previous attempts to conceptualize satisfaction have often taken an atheoretical approach and focused on doctors' communication skills. Patients are becoming more active health consumers involved in their health care and current definitions of patient satisfaction may not accurately reflect patient expectations about their health consultations. Earlier research found that meeting patients' em…

  • Interactional Adjustment

    Open AccessJ Gasiorek, Ann Weatherall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2021

    Interactional adjustment refers to people’s tendency to adjust, or adapt, their communication behavior in social interactions. In recent years, three distinctive approaches to this topic that have featured prominently in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology are communication accommodation theory (CAT), language style matching (LSM), and discursive psychology using conversation analysis (DPCA). In this article, we provide a review of thes…

  • Playback

    Open AccessYing Jin, Bernadette M WatsonARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2020Referências: 29

    The current study examined a role-related difference in the use of playback (one form of repetition) in medical discourse. We adopted a language and social psychology approach and invoked communication accommodation theory (CAT) to explore this discourse. Thirty doctor/older adult dyads were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Findings suggested that the deployment of repetition is a strategy used by the addresser to either complement or converge …

  • Assessing Communication Behaviours of Hospital Pharmacists

    Open AccessBernadette A M Chevalier, Bernadette M Watson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2020Referências: 47

    Pharmacists need effective communication skills to provide high-quality patient care. To date, little has been published about hospital pharmacists’ communication behaviours, most is atheoretical, and has not studied patients and pharmacists as a dyad. We investigated how well pharmacists’ and patients’ perspectives of their shared conversation aligned, and how closely these perspectives matched that of an outsider (observer). We invoked communic…

  • Perspectives on Suicide Prevention Amongst Members of Christian Faith-Based Organizations

    Open AccessRenée Bazley, Kenneth I Pakenham et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2019Citada por: 3Referências: 30

  • Intergroup Communication

    Open AccessC Gallois, Bernadette M Watson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2018

    Intergroup relations have been studied systematically for more than 60 years and have become embedded in mainstream communication studies. The intergroup communication (IGC) approach provides a crucial level of understanding beyond the interpersonal and the societal, highlighting the interconnections and mutual influences between groups and individuals. In this paper, we briefly describe the main features and history of IGC, pointing to ways of m…

  • Travelers’ Health Risk Perceptions and Protective Behavior

    Open AccessP Monica Chien, Mona Sharifpour et al.ARTICLETravel Research Bulletin2017

    Although the significance of travel health risks is well documented, the process through which people assess their vulnerability and ultimately take on preventive measures needs clarification. The purpose of this article is to better understand factors underlying travelers’ health risk perceptions and their protective behavior. Using the health psychology literature, a conceptual model that incorporates multilevel psychological constructs was tes…

  • ‘You don’t know what’s going on in there’

    Danielle Ferndale, Renata F I Meuter et al.ARTICLEHealth Risk & Society2017

    In contemporary Western society, the concept of risk is mostly linked related to negative or undesirable outcomes and used to explain unusual or abnormal events that have harmful consequences. Working in a poststructuralist framework, in this article we examine how risk shapes interactions between midwives and pregnant women in the context of public hospitals in Australia. We draw on data from an observational study of clinical encounters in thre…

  • Investigating strategies used by hospital pharmacists to effectively communicate with patients during medication counselling

    Open AccessBernadette A M Chevalier, Bernadette M Watson et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2017

    BACKGROUND: Medication counselling opportunities are key times for pharmacists and patients to discuss medications and patients' concerns about their therapy. Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) describes behavioural, motivational and emotional processes underlying communication exchanges. Five CAT strategies (approximation, interpretability, discourse management, emotional expression and interpersonal control) permit identification of effec…

  • Intergroup Communication

    Open AccessBernadette M Watson, Bernadette Watson et al.CHAPTERThe International Encyclopedia of…2016

    Intergroup communication reflects a way of looking at communication among members of different social categories or groups (ethnicity, gender, age, health status, organizational membership, etc.), and the ways in which social identities, attitudes, and motivations influence and are negotiated in communication. The field has multidisciplinary origins, and it is diverse in theory and eclectic in methodology. This entry gives a broad overview of the…

  • An exploration of how health care professionals understand experiences of deafness

    Open AccessDanielle Ferndale, Bernadette M Watson et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2016

    Findings from recent deaf education intervention programmes with health care professionals emphasise the importance of sociocultural dimensions of medicine, pointing to the need to further investigate health professionals’ current understandings of deafness. Situated within a social constructionist and critical realist framework, we investigated health professionals’ understandings of deafness and experiences of providing health services in Austr…

  • Communication in open disclosure conversations about adverse events in hospitals

    Open AccessBernadette M Watson, Daniel Angus et al.ARTICLELanguage & Communication2015

  • Creating Deaf-Friendly Spaces for Research

    Danielle Ferndale, Bernadette M Watson et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research in Psychology2015Referências: 3

    In this article, we provide a reflexive account of the first author’s experience of designing and using an inclusive online forum to conduct research with people living in Australia with deafness or hearing loss. We reflect on the personal, institutional, pragmatic, and ontological influences on the project and how we managed these influences when they conflicted. In recounting this experience, we highlight the productive and restrictive aspects …

  • Understanding the Health Communication Process

    Open AccessSusan C Baker, Susan Baker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2015Referências: 8

    The articles presented in this special issue bring attention to important sociocultural variables and language strategies present in the ever-changing and complex health care system. These articles were selected from the health communication symposium of the 14th International Conference of Language and Social Psychology held in Hawaii in 2014. The articles each concentrate on different aspects of health communication and employ different theoret…

  • Communication between hospital doctors

    Open AccessDavid G Hewett, Bernadette M Watson et al.ARTICLELanguage & Communication2015Citada por: 5Referências: 15