One Day Workshop: Patients Don’t Listen – Helping Patients to Change (BE050914)

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DescriptionOne day Workshop in Behaviour Management. This day course will combine didactic lectures, workshops and hands on tasks. Participants will be provided with a handbook and worksheets to help them target behaviours to change and effective techniques for behaviour change.
Additional informationCourse intended for: Entire Practice Team

Tim Newton is Professor of Psychology as Applied to Dentistry at King’s College London Dental Institute. He also holds Honorary Consultant Health Psychologist positions with Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Queen Mary’s Sidcup Hospital Trust. Tim has worked in the behavioural sciences in relation to dentistry for over 20 years, and his particular interests include the management of dental anxiety, the working life of the dental team and patients’ perceptions of treatment. He has published over 220 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals.

In 2007 he received the Giddon Award for distinguished research in the behavioural sciences and in 2011 was awarded honorary membership of the British Orthodontic Society. He is the 2013 Webb Johnson Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 2008 in conjunction with colleagues Dr KoulaAsimakopoulou and Dr Suzanne Scott he founded the King’s College London Dental Institute Health Psychology Service for individuals who are dentally anxious.

He is founding Editor, with Dr Sasha Scambler of the journal Social Science& Dentistry.

He has a strong commitment to ensuring that research is of the highest scientific and ethical standards in protection of the rights of research participants and the wider public served by the research community. In pursuance of this he is Chair of the King’s College London Research Ethics Committee, as well as serving as Deputy Director of Research & Development for the King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
VenueJohn Lister Postgraduate Centre, Slough - Berkshire - East  View details
Date & timeFriday 5 September 2014, 09:00 to 16:00
LecturerMigration  View details
Target audience

Recommended to all

Development outcomeNo development outcome
Course styleLecture
Core topicNo core topic
CPD hours6:00
Cost£25.00
Aims
  1. To provide attendees with an overview of the psychological theory and methods to enhance behaviour change and improve patient adherence to health related advice.
  2. A knowledge of approaches to planning and implementing behaviour change.
  3. A knowledge of a theoretical model of patient compliance.
  4. An understanding of techniques for enhancing patient compliance with health related advice.