Price: £4.95 (Paperback)

Authors: Helen Chapman and Nick KIrby-Turner

About this book

Being very frightened of going to the dentist or having a dental phobia, can feel very distressing. Avoiding dental treatment means missing out on essential care. It can mean suffering unnecessarily from toothache, or missing out on opportunities to have braces and straight teeth, with consequences that may last throughout life. This book is written for young people who want to understand more about their dental fear and how to overcome it. It is for people who need help over and above that which a sympathetic dentist could offer. It talks about a particular type of therapy called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT for short. CBT Is user-friendly and has been shown to be effective for many problems including phobias. It is widely used by psychologists and specially trained therapists. It should help both with facing going to the dentist and gradually accepting any dental treatment, which is needed.

About the Authors:

Helen Chapman is Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry. She has a Postgraduate Certificate In CBT She has worked for nearly 20 year's treating children, many of whom were frightened of going to the dentist. She teaches other dentists about young people and dental fear. Together with Nick, she has developed a CBT approach to dental fear.

Nick Kirby-Turner is a clinical psychologist working with children and young people In West Sussex. He Is interested in incorporating developmental and systemic ideas into the CBT work he undertakes with young people. Nick thinks of himself as a dental phobic in remission.