ARC ROLE

Primary Supervisor, Mental Health

PROFESSIONAL ROLE

Professor of Clinical Communication, City, University of London

EXPERTISE AND INTERESTS

Rose McCabe is Professor of Clinical Communication at City, University of London. Her research focuses on micro-analysing video-recorded consultations to understand and improve healthcare practitioner-patient communication and therapeutic relationships in mental healthcare. Her work has focused on communicating a diagnosis/breaking bad news, shared decision making and assessment of suicidality.

Rose has studied how different practitioners interact with people with psychosis, depression and dementia across a range of treatment settings. She uses mixed methods to link processes and outcomes in healthcare. She translates conversation analytic findings into novel interventions to improve communication and patient outcomes and conducts trials to evaluate their effectiveness.