Ten Keys to Helping Your Child Grow Up With Diabetes, The - Softcover

Pediatric psychologist Wysocki addresses the psychological, social, and emotional issues that diabetes raises for children in a guide for parents that carries the imprimatur of the American Diabetes Association. Making a healthy adjustment to childhood diabetes demands delicately balancing the sometimes competing goals of attending to a child's psychological development, on the one hand, and managing the disease, on the other. Wysocki represents the tasks that diabetes adds to parenting as a pyramid, with diabetes knowledge, emotional coping, and family communication functioning as the foundations on which such more challenging tasks as treatment adherence, social development, and school adjustment are based. Controlling diabetes involves more than managing blood sugar levels. It calls for living a rich, rewarding life and reaching personal goals despite the daily self-care the disorder requires. Warm and supportive, Wysocki makes learning how to help a child realize such a life more a challenge than a burden. Kathryn Carpenter