Psychology and management of children's behavior

– Behavior management: basic principles

– Scientific foundations for the management of child behavior

– Factors of poor communication of the child: indications and contraindications for non-pharmacological methods

– The influence of parents and parenting style: the relationship with the behavior of the child

– Dental team: aspects of successful communication

– Basic and advanced non-pharmacological methods of behavior management:

- communication and communication guidance (appropriate to age)

- positive pre-visit imagery

- direct observation

- tell-show-do

- ask-tell-ask

- voice control

- non-verbal communication

- positive reinforcement and descriptive praise

- distraction

- memory restructuring

- desensitization to dental conditions

- enhancing control.

– Documentation of admission and individualization of the treatment plan

– Sensory-adapted dental environment (SADE technique)

– Animal-аssisted Therapy (AAT)

– Picture exchange communication system (PECS)

– A technique of protective stabilization.

Recommended for: Pediatric dentists.

– Goals and indications for general anesthesia:

- Age and weight of the child

- Health status

- Amount of tretment

- Cooperation

- Parental preferences.

– Nitrous oxide: clinical effect, indications and safety of use

– Contraindications for nitrous oxide

– Sedation levels: characteristics and benefits of moderate sedation

– Specific pharmacological agents in pediatric dentistry, features and details of use:

- Midazolam

- Triazolam

- Flumazenil

- Hydroxyzine

- Diphenylhydramine

- Drug combinations.

Recommended for: Pediatric dentists.

– Goals and indications for general anesthesia:

- Age and weight of the child

- Health status

- Amount of tretment

- Cooperation

- Parental preferences.

– Nitrous oxide: clinical effect, indications and safety of use

– Contraindications for nitrous oxide

– Sedation levels: characteristics and benefits of moderate sedation

– Specific pharmacological agents in pediatric dentistry, features and details of use:

- Midazolam

- Triazolam

- Flumazenil

- Hydroxyzine

- Diphenylhydramine

- Drug combinations.

– Scheme for selecting drugs by age

– Local anesthetics: interaction with general sedatives

– Levels of monitoring of the patient's condition

– Documentation of admission: child behavior, treatment and informed consent.

Recommended for: Pediatric dentists.

– Indications of treatment under general anesthesia

– Basic preparation principles of a treatment plan

– Tactics of management of the postoperative period

– Stages of treatment under general anesthesia:

- Consultation (doctor's stage and coordinator's stage)

- Organization of the treatment process

- Isolation of the working field.

– Treatment of dental caries and chronic pulpitis: a clinical example

– Procedures where you can save time

– Preparation stage: selection of the tip and burs

– Features of endodontic treatment under general anesthesia

– The process of waking up and communicating with patients after treatment.

Recommended for: Pediatric dentists.

– Dental fear, anxiety and odontofobia: definition

– Factors of dental anxiety development:

- Age of the child

- Character traits

- Parental influence.

– Diagnosis of dental anxiety: the Frankl scale

– Prevention of anxiety: techniques

– Communication techniques with a small patient

– The 4 "S" principles by reducing triggers of stress

– Basic behavior guidance techniques

– The presence of parents during treatment: tactics

– Pharmacological techniques of behavior management: tasks and indications.

Recommended for: Pediatric dentists.

– Anxiety and depression among children and adolescents

– Child's fears: norm and pathology

– Factors of development of anxiety and depression in children

– Depression: definition and diagnostic criteria

– Symptoms of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents

– Body dysmorphia syndrome

– Strategies and principles of treatment of anxiety and depression

– The role of digital technologies in the development of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents: cyberbullying

– 8 online factors that increase the propensity to suicide.

Recommended for: Pediatric dentists.

– The importance of NLP in pediatric dentistry

– 6 basic principles of NLP

– Communication mechanisms in NLP

– Sensory organs as a way of creating reality: representative patterns:

- Characteristics of the visual type of perception

- Characteristics of the auditory type of perception

- Characteristics of the kinaesthetic type of perception.

– 3 V communications: how to see and hear a child

– The technique of mirroring gestures

– The technique of repeating the child's breathing

– Verbal respiratory synchronization

– Effective communication: flexibility in thinking and behavior

– NLP Techniques:

- Anchoring technique

- The "High five" technique

- Reframing technique

- Swish pattern technique

- The "Loop Break" technique

- Pattern interrupt technique

- Technique of embedded commands

- The Zen mind trick.

– Deletion, generalization, distortion: language-meta-models and the Milton model

– Principles of basic communication when working with children

– Child's bad behavior: tactics.

Recommended for: Pediatric dentists.

– Hypnosis: myths and misunderstandings

– Conversational hypnosis: a scientifically based approach

– Overt and covert hypnosis: goals and indications for the use of hypnosis

– Hypnotic state: the ABS formula

– Conversational hypnosis techniques to induce trance: 

- Interrupting the dialog

- Overlap realities

- Verbal confusion

- Vague sentences

- Basic hypnotic formula.

– Basic communication principles of working with children

– Words and their meaning in working with children. The Milton model.

Recommended for: Pediatric dentists.

7 lessons + 1 free (11h 26min)