Microsoft PowerPoint - Stress Management in Dentistry (Compatibility Mode)
Microsoft PowerPoint - Stress Management in Dentistry (Compatibility Mode)
Microsoft PowerPoint - Stress Management in Dentistry (Compatibility Mode)
in dentistry
Objectives
• You will be able to identify stress in
yourself and others
• You will be able to manage stress
Looking at:
• Identifying stress
• Identifying your stressors
• Stress management techniques
What is stress?
How would you define stress?
Support Control
Change
Demands
Role
5 Top stressors in dentistry
• Running behind schedule
• Causing pain
• Heavy workload
• Late patients
• Anxious patients (Moore & Brodsgaard 2003)
Patient behaviour
Most stressful of the healthcare
professions (Freeman et al 1995)
Patient behaviour (Gale 1988)
Transfer of their emotions (Freeman et al
1995)
80% adults have some fear (ADHS 2008)
Dentists relate better & more friendly
to middle class patient (Carson et al 2004)
Economic pressure (Gale 1988)
HSE risk factors
Relationships
Support Control
Change
Demands
Role
How do demands lead to stress?
• The fight/flight response
– Life style
– Personality
– Thinking style
– Coping mechanisms
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
• Alcohol and smoking
– No smoking. Dopamine rebound
– 14 units for women / 21 for men
• Diet
– Healthy and balanced. Drink water.
Avoid stimulants
• Exercise
– Appropriate
• Relaxation
– Taking time
Would you pass a fitness test?
Add up how may activities you did which lasted at least 30
minutes over the last four weeks
Activity Moderate Vigorous
activity (35-54)
3 12 or more occasions of moderate activity (55 – 74)
2 5-11 occasions of moderate and vigorous activity
0 None
Personality
– Listen actively
– Talk less/ more slowly
– Do one thing at a time
– Question the need to hurry
– Initiate outside interests
– Say no to the unachievable
– Create time for yourself
– Break up the day with breathers
Locus of Control
• Internal
– Feel they have control over events
– Try and change events
• External
– Feel events have control - fate
– Less likely to try and change events
– Over generalising
- If something bad happens, assuming it will always
“I made a mistake therefore I will always make
mistakes” Think: Now not always ………..and learn
– Unreal ideal
- Comparison to an unfair ideal
“Ghandi stayed calm, why can’t I”
Think: Aim but be realistic
Challenging thinking errors
Recognising
– Spend a few minutes a day capturing your thoughts around events
that have bothered you on paper and identifying thinking errors
Challenge them!
Exercise: Challenging thinking errors
Think of a stressor you have faced in the last month, what was it?