Title Behaviour Management PHD.pdf ✅

BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
Quick Recap
Quick Recap • Behaviour management: defined as means by which the dental health team effectively and efficiently performs dental treatment and thereby instills a positive dental attitude • Behavior modification: defined as attempt to alter human behavior and emotion in a beneficial way and in accordance with the laws of learning • Behavior shaping: is the procedure which slowly develops behavior by reinforcing a successive approximation of desired behavior until the desired behavior comes into being
Pre-appointment behavior modification • Prepares patient and eases introduction to dentistry • Modeling- audiovisual aids, live models • Merits: Rimms and masters 1. Stimulation of new behaviors 2. Facilitation of new behavior in appropriate manner 3. Dis-inhibition of inappropriate behavior 4. Extinction of fears • Pre-appointment mailings