Trauma Informed Dental Care Workshop
Expand your knowledge and confidence with an informative workshop on trauma-informed care in Dentistry. Presented by Dr. Sharonne Zaks AM, this session will equip you with practical approaches to supporting patients affected by trauma, dental anxiety and phobia.
Description
Expand your knowledge and confidence with an informative workshop on trauma-informed care in Dentistry. Presented by Dr. Sharonne Zaks AM, this session will equip you with practical approaches to supporting patients affected by trauma, dental anxiety and phobia.
TOPICS:
Why survivors of trauma struggle with dental visits and their oral health: the impacts of trauma
Prevalence data: understanding the scale of sexual and family violence
How survivors present to us and what to look out for: the impacts of trauma on oral health and the challenges these create
The trauma informed skillset, including how to build trust and safety, collaborate with, and empower our patients
Clinical practice guidelines for sexual and family violence, including asking about safety, responding to disclosures, referrals for support, reporting, documentation
Clinical tips and practical management strategies for trauma survivors, anxious, and phobic patients, for the the whole dental team
Self-care for dentists and staff, including prevention of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout
Please note: Friday 9am - 4pm and Saturday 9am - 12pm
Friday Lunch and morning tea on both days
Sponsors - Soroptimist International and Healing Smiles
Learning objectives
To be able to support and educate our members in trauma-informed care.
Presenters
Dr Sharonne Zaks AM has 27 years of experience in private dental practice in Melbourne and regional Victoria with a special interest in working with anxious and phobic patients, and survivors of sexual assault and trauma, who travel from across Australia for her care.
She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne, receiving two Dean’s Honours List awards and the Periodontics prize in her final year, among other academic awards.
The compassionate approach she has developed incorporates the trauma-informed principles, her clinical expertise, and ongoing research into dental anxiety, phobia, and trauma. It benefits patients, clinicians, and staff, and is being taught locally and internationally.
She is the first person to comprehensively integrate the trauma-informed approach into dentistry, including developing a new protocol for working with patients impacted by family violence for dental teams in private practice.