FREE Lunchtime Webinar: Behaviour Change (WEBINAR26062022)

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DescriptionThis is a free Lunchtime Webinar on 'Behaviour change', providing top tips on encouraging behaviour change with your patients and helping them choose 'healthy behaviours'
Additional information

Katy Kerr BDS DDPH RCS (Eng) PGCertCE. Katy currently chairs the Dementia Friendly Dentistry Group and represents dentistry on the Dementia Workforce Advisory Group. She is passionate about improving access for people with dementia to visit the dentist and is working to support the establishment of dementia friendly dental care environments. She was the project lead for the dementia awareness film, “The Appointment” now hosted on the national HEE website as part of dementia training for all health professionals.

In her role for HEE, Katy works across Thames Valley and Wessex to provide training and workforce development opportunities for all members of the team. She has trained extensively about the impact of poor oral health for older people in residential and hospital settings, she was a member of the External Expert Advisory Group for the CQC report, Smiling Matters, on oral health in care homes and developed training resources for the Public Health England toolkit: Adult Oral Health in Care Homes, to address the findings in the report.

Katy is an active member of the Hydration Network. Katy generated the content for the E-learning package, “Improving mouth care", on E-Learning for Health, and was part of the national training group that developed training resources to support the Starting Well programme for 0-5 year old children.

VenueWebinar Tutorial, Winchester  View details
Date & timeThursday 23 June 2022, 13:15 to 13:45
LecturerKaty Kerr  View details
Target audience

Recommended to all

Development outcomeA, C
Course styleLecture
Core topicNo core topic
CPD hours0:30
CostNo charge
Aims

This training aims to help members of the dental team to understand how to deliver preventive advice in order to support behaviour change 

Objectives
  • A brief summary of the theories around behaviour change and good communication
  • How to Undertake a structured behaviour change conversation
  • How to recognise resistance and some techniques to deal with it
Learning outcomes

At the end of the training the participant should be able to;

  • Apply communication and behaviour change theories to everyday practice.
  • Recognise barriers to communication and behaviour change.
  • Understand how a structured conversation works to encourage behaviour change.
  • Recognise resistance and understand some techniques to manage it.