Strengthening Resilience: Stress Management for Early-Career Dental Professionals

About This Course

This course teaches dental professionals how to recognize and manage stress in their practice, including fostering personal resilience and implementing effective stress management strategies for optimal mental health.

Why Take This Course?

The course addresses a common problem faced by UK dental professionals – stress. The nature of their work often involves dealing with patients who are anxious or in pain, performing complex procedures, and handling emergencies. This can lead to chronic stress, which can have negative consequences on their physical and mental health. The course provides tools and techniques to help dental professionals manage stress, including building resilience, adopting a mind-body approach, and improving time management skills. By implementing these strategies, dental professionals can improve their overall well-being and provide better care to their patients.

The course is beneficial as it covers various aspects of stress management, including defining stress, recognizing stressors, and implementing stress management strategies. Additionally, it offers resources for mental health support, time management skills, and organization skills, which can be useful for dental professionals to manage their workload and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Strengthening personal resilience and adopting a mind-body approach can also help prevent burnout and improve overall well-being.

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How This Course Supports GDC Enhanced Dental CPD

“Dental professionals have a duty to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. A primary qualification is only the first step in their education and development which should last throughout their professional life” General Dental Council

Learning Objectives	Anticipated Outcomes
1: By the end of this course, learners will be able to apply appropriate deescalation techniques in stressful patient situations to maintain professionalism and promote effective communication.	1: Upon completion of the course, participants are expected to have enhanced understanding of the specific stressors in dentistry and developed effective strategies, particularly mindfulness, to manage and reduce these stressors.
2: Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to implement self-care and wellness strategies effectively to manage their stress levels and promote overall health.	2: As a result of this course, learners will likely contribute towards a more positive and less stressful work environment in their respective dental practices, improving not only their own wellbeing but also the quality of patient care.
3: Participants will demonstrate their ability to utilize stress management resources and leadership strategies effectively to manage their dental practice under high-pressure situations.	3: The course should lead to a significant enhancement in learners’ ability to identify stress triggers and manage them effectively, avoiding burnout and enhancing their overall satisfaction in their dental careers.
4: By the final session, learners will have mastered the leadership skills necessary to facilitate communication, motivate their team, and make strategic decisions in high-pressure situations in a dental practice.	4: In the wider context, the course aims to contribute to the broader conversation about stress management in dentistry, promoting mindfulness as one of the effective strategies for improving the mental wellbeing of dental professionals.
5: At the course’s conclusion, attendees will have developed the competency to incorporate mindfulness practices into their routine to manage stress in a high-pressure professional environment.	5: Following the course, the expectation is that attendees will effectively integrate mindfulness practices into their daily routines, resulting in improved physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing and enhanced professional performance.

Regulatory Standards

GDC	CQC
✅ A – Effective Communication ✅ B – Effective Management ✅ C – Maintenance in Field of Practice ✅ D – Maintenance in Patient Confidence	✅ Caring ✅ Effective ✅ Leadership ✅ Responsive ✅ Safe

🕐 90 minutes of Enhanced Dental CPD

Course Description

The course covers understanding and managing stress in dental professional practice, including defining stress, recognizing stressors, consequences of chronic stress, role of resilience, strengthening personal resilience, mind-body approach to managing stress, resources for mental health support, time management and organization skills, and implementing stress management strategies.

Course Outline

Section 1

Section 1 of the course covers the topics of defining stress and recognizing stressors in dental professional practice, understanding the consequences of chronic stress, exploring the role of resilience in managing stress, and identifying personal stressors and resilience strategies. It also delves into personal resilience techniques, the mind-body approach to managing stress, time management and organization skills, and implementing stress management strategies with the help of support networks, coping with setbacks, and sustaining resilience and stress management over time.

Section 2

Section 2 of this course covers various topics related to building personal resilience and managing stress, including defining personal resilience, exploring the mind-body connection in stress, and developing time management and organizational skills. Students will learn about the role of positive psychology in building resilience, resilience techniques for personal and professional life, the impact of time management on stress levels, and strategies for sustaining resilience and managing stress over time. Case studies and exercises are also included to provide practical examples and opportunities for students to apply these stress management techniques.

Section 3

Section 3 of the course focuses on managing stress through a mind-body approach and strengthening personal resilience. It covers understanding the mind-body connection in stress, incorporating physical exercise and good nutrition, and developing time management and organizational skills. It also emphasizes the role of support networks in stress management and coping with setbacks.

Section 4

Section 4 of the course covers time management and organization skills, including the impact of time management on stress levels, prioritization techniques for better work-life balance, strategies for effective delegation and teamwork, the role of organizational skills in reducing workplace stress, and a case study on the impact of efficient time management and organizational skills on stress levels.

Section 5

Section 5 of this course covers implementing stress management strategies and ensuring continuity. It includes developing an effective stress management plan, the role of support networks in stress management, coping with setbacks, strategies for sustaining resilience and managing stress over time, and a summary of key stress management techniques and resources.

Course Reviews

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This course provided a comprehensive overview of stress management techniques specifically tailored for dental professionals. The section on strengthening personal resilience was particularly helpful.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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The mind-body approach taught in this course was extremely valuable in understanding how to manage stress effectively. The resources for mental health support provided were also very informative.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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As a dental professional, I found this course to be highly relevant and informative. The section on time management and organization skills was particularly helpful in reducing stress levels in my practice.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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