Taking Away the Pain of the Dentist: The role of behaviorally based screening and planning for dental care matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support. In Taking Away the Pain of the Dentist: The role of behaviorally based screening and planning for dental care, for this course, the practical stakes show up in safe, humane intervention that respects health variables and daily-life feasibility, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →NYSABA Hosted Patients with IDD experience significant challenges accessing dental care and anecdotally have some of the highest utilization rates for surgical dentistry than any other population. Along with an extensive wait for surgical intervention, the process of getting to and accessing surgery can be traumatizing, resulting in aggression to self or others, overutilization of medications, and at worst, trauma to staff and patients. Using Quality Improvement methodology, the writer will show how a an interdisciplinary team at pediatric children's hospital completed a systems analysis to predict, intervene, prevent, and assess the impact of behavioral prescreening, planning and support for children with IDD at risk of challenges during dental care.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dr. Amanda Laprime is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University Of Rochester Medical Center. Since coming to URMC, Dr. Laprime developed the first, intensive behavioral team (IBT) that provides outpatient behavior support, and inpatient consultation to individuals behavioral or mental health challenges. This team specializes in interdisciplinary approaches to trauma informed models of behavior analytic intervention for those patients who struggle to access their medical care, or experience challenges with behavioral stability in their homes and communities. Dr. Laprime’s research focuses on the treatment of severe behavior, increase health equity in medical environments, and system-wide approaches for serving patients with complex needs. She serves as a committee member for the OPWDD DDAC, and as a member of the public policy committee for the National Council of Severe Autism. She is a part-time lecturer for Northeastern University, and a subject matter expert for the BACB. Dr. Laprime has been invited to speak nationally about issues related to crisis care and systems analysis for individuals with autism spectrum disorders who experience overutilization of psychiatric and hospital services. She has published in several journals and presents regularly at regional and national conferences on system-wide challenges for those with complex behavioral needs.
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