Information for Educators

The authors of this suite of educational resources are dentistry academic-practitioners, and social work academic-practitioners. Drawing on this range of academic, teaching, and practice experience, the authors:

• advise this suite of educational resources was developed to supplement an existing educational program to deliver DSV content to dentistry students. Therefore, this suite of educational resources is not a program in itself
• encourage Educators to use this suite of educational resources as a foundation that can be adapted to their own specific teaching context
• emphasis the suite of educational resources incorporates scaffolded material consistent with an already existing program to deliver DSV content to dentistry students. However, Educators are encouraged to use each educational resource individually, selectively or as a suite depending on the design and what will support their DSV training program/curriculum. See the ‘key skills and content’ table included in each print resource to guide your selection of which educational resource/s to engage with
• recommend either showing the entire video then returning to specific sections to highlight content; or stopping the video at certain points in the first viewing to ‘unpack’ the content
• suggest learning opportunities are strengthened when students engage in personal reflection, pair work, group discussions, role-plays, and reading content included in the print resource
• highlight the video and print resource video encourage students to engage in ‘critical reflection’ in order to de-bunk myths, and identify unconscious bias that may influence how they respond to patients who are victim-survivors of DSV
• propose Educators see Carrington et al (2023a) and Carrington et al (2023b) to read more about how the inter-professional collaboration enhanced the development of these educational resources, and the original program that led to the development of this suite of educational resource