Lina Jasulaityte - "Motivational Interviewing. The importance of communication in child-friendly dentistry"

Motivational Interviewing. The importance of communication in child-friendly dentistry

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Lina Jasulaityte

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About the online course

During this lecture, the following questions will be addressed and illustrated by clinical cases:
The etiological approach in caries treatment and locus of control
Why people do not want to change and how can we influence that?
The health care provider as a guide to better oral health
How can you hear the wish to change, how can you explore and strengthen that wish?

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Despite the efforts of oral health providers, caries continues to be one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in the world among all ages. Caries often starts at a young age, caused by disbalance in the dental biofilm which is influenced by self-care habits, such as oral hygiene and diet. Caries is currently considered a behavioural disease.
The habits of self-care depend on different factors: family functioning, stress levels, self-efficacy of the parents, parental oral health beliefs and behaviours. When oral health providers treat the symptoms of caries in the form of restoration, without approaching the causes of the disease, high relapse rates can be observed. A paradigm shift is needed in the provision of oral health care to prioritize the causative treatment.
Currently attention in dentistry is shifting towards behavioural modification techniques and research shows promising results of Motivational Interviewing in oral health. For example, the new evidence based Dutch Guidelines for Caries Treatment in Youth advice to use Motivational Interviewing as the basis of caries treatment.
Motivational interviewing is a patient-centered communication style with the patient or parent about their own change, where their own reasons for change are being explored and ambivalence is being resolved. Motivational interviewing has been developed by W.R. Miller and S. Rollnick and has been successful in treatment of many lifestyle related medical conditions, such as addictions, diabetes, obesity, oral diseases and other. The mindset of the health care provider together with the techniques form the basis of this facilitative style of communication.
During this lecture, the following questions will be addressed and illustrated by clinical cases:

The etiological approach in caries treatment and locus of control
Why people do not want to change and how can we influence that?
The health care provider as a guide to better oral health
How can you hear the wish to change, how can you explore and strengthen that wish?
The techniques and processes of the conversation
Where to start?

Lina Jasulaityte

Lina Jasulaityte combines in her work the knowledge from two fields: pedagogy and dentistry. She received her degree in pedagogics and kinesitherapy in 1989 and in pediatric dentistry in 1997 from Kaunas, Lithuania.
She moved to the Netherlands where in 2007 she received a degree in pediatric dentistry at ACTA, Amsterdam.
She has been teaching pediatric dentistry for undergraduate students in Lithuania and Amsterdam.
Since 2008 she is working at the Youth Dental Care organization in the Hague with referred children with special needs, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds. The experience has developed in her a special interest in the subject of minimally invasive dentistry, coaching and communication in dentistry, especially Motivational Interviewing.
Lina followed coaching courses for professionals and children with behavior problems, gained knowledge and developed skills in Motivational Interviewing including training by S. Rollnick in Cardiff.
Apart from clinical practice she is a teacher of NOCTP (Gewoon Gaaf) and Motivational Interviewing at Prevention Academy of the Ivory Cross, the Dutch national organization for preventive oral care.
Lina has participated in development of the Dutch national guidelines 'Oral care for youth – dental caries. Prevention and treatment'. These progressive evidence-based guidelines include communication, prevention, and minimally invasive dentistry for children with Motivational Interviewing taking prominent place.

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Pediatric dentist.

"Motivational Interviewing. The importance of communication in child-friendly dentistry"

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