Ep. 2 - An Interview With Felicity Bright: The Patient’s Engagement and Experience...

Summary: ANCDS Podcast Ep. 2 - An Interview With Felicity Bright: The Patient’s Engagement and Experience with You, the Speech Pathologist Felicity Bright is a speech and language therapist and lecturer at Aukland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Felicity’s research is situated at the intersections of rehabilitation, professional practice and clinical education. Her current research focuses on how students and rehabilitation providers interact with and engage people in rehabilitation. In this episode, we discussed what engagement is, how to assess and promote it, along with the role of the therapeutic relationship and hope. Felicity can be found on twitter at @flissbright or at https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/health-sciences/physiotherapy/lecturers/felicity-bright. The following open-access papers related to our conversation are available for download: "A conceptual review of engagement in healthcare and rehabilitation": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/9453 "Implementing a client-centred approach in rehabilitation: An autoethnography": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/9469 "Hope in people with aphasia": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/5815