Hypnosis of preschool age children for anxiety reduction in dentistry

IPNOSI ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Allan R. Pike
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Age ◽  
Anxiety Reduction ◽  
Hypnotic Induction ◽  
Preschool Age Children ◽  
Induction Technique ◽  
Induction Sequence ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
Key Words Hypnosis ◽  
The Mind

- Hypnosis of preschool age children for anxiety reduction in dentistry. A non-verbal hypnotic induction technique for three year old children at their first dental visit rapidly reduces anxiety. The mind set is done via pre-mailed printed materials. The induction sequence is as follows: Adjust shoes and socks, examine fingers, measure height, assist arm levitation, and praise. The key is to allow the child to feel in control, while the dentist acts as a guide. Proceeding against a child's will, destroys hard earned trust forever. Technical procedures require detailed progressive desensitization. Operator patience and painless techniques are most important.Key words: hypnosis, children, non-verbal, dentist, progressive, desensitization.Parole chiave: ipnosi, bambini, non-verbale, dentista, desensibilizzazione progressiva.

Biracial Testing: The Question of Clinicians' Influence on Children’s Test Performance

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Roy A. Koenigsknecht
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Drawing Test ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Preschool Age Children

Six speech and language clinicians, three black and three white, administered the Goodenough Drawing Test (1926) to 144 preschoolers. The four groups, lower socioeconomic black and white and middle socioeconomic black and white, were divided equally by sex. The biracial clinical setting was shown to influence test scores in black preschool-age children.

The German Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Petermann ◽  
Franz Petermann ◽  
Ina Schreyer
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Teacher Ratings ◽  
Screening Instrument ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties Questionnaire ◽  
Preschool Age Children ◽  
Discriminant Analyses ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties ◽  
Behavioral Attributes ◽  
And Behavior

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a screening instrument that addresses positive and negative behavioral attributes of children and adolescents. Although this questionnaire has been used in Germany to gather information from parents and teachers of preschoolers, few studies exist that verify the validity of the German SDQ for this age. In the present study, teacher ratings were collected for 282 children aged 36 to 60 months (boys = 156; girls = 126). Likewise, teacher ratings were collected with another German checklist for behavior problems and behavior disorders at preschool age (Verhaltensbeurteilungsbogen für Vorschulkinder, VBV 3–6). Moreover, children’s developmental status was assessed. Evaluation included correlation analysis as well as canonical correlation analysis to assess the multivariate relationship between the set of SDQ variables and the set of VBV variables. Discriminant analyses were used to clarify which SDQ variables are useful to differentiate between children with or without developmental delay in a multivariate model. The results of correlation and discriminant analyses underline the validity of the SDQ for preschoolers. According to these results, the German teacher SDQ is recommended as a convenient and valid screening instrument to assess positive and negative behavior of preschool age children.

Evolution de la gestion des chablis ces 50 dernières années dans la région du Bas-Valais (essai)

2015 ◽  
Vol 166 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Roland Métral
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Dead Wood ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Forest Dieback ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Management Priorities

Trends in windthrow management during the last 50 years in Lower Valais (essay) A review on the measures taken in forests hit by storms during the last 50 years reveals the mind-set behind the evolution of management operations. In the 1960s, to remove all dead wood in a stand was perfectly normal due to timber prices. Between 1984 and 1990, vast sums of money were pumped into the improvement of forest structures facing the threat of a general forest dieback. As a consequence, only few of the windthrow areas caused by storm Vivian remained with no intervention. Vivian also marked the beginning of manifold research activities and practical terrain examination in windthrow gaps. Conclusions of this first research phase resulted in a critical assessment of the windthrow areas caused by Lothar in 1999, considering different goals than systematic removal of damage wood and the prevention of bark beetle outbreaks. Since the 1990s, retaining timber after windthrow has been lively discussed, as well as the maintenance of the protection function against natural hazards and opportunities for biodiversity. Several handbooks were developed and successfully used for the planning and defining of top priority measures in damaged forests that resulted from disturbances in 2011 and 2012 in Lower Valais. These recent disturbances together with the certainty that storms will recur led to the formation of a task force in the canton Valais, aiming to organize both logistics and funds, as well as to define management priorities regarding a next hazard.

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