Ten Keys to Helping Your Child Grow Up With Diabetes, The [Paperback]

Tim Wysocki (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1997

A problem-solving guide for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes.

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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

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Amer Diabetes Assn (April 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0945448740
• ISBN-13: 978-0945448747
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,778,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Diabetes from a family perspective, October 30, 2001

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Carol Watkins "Psychiatrist" (Parkton, Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ten Keys to Helping Your Child Grow Up With Diabetes, The (Paperback)

Dr. Wysocki, a child psychologist,draws from his wealth of experience dealing with children, teens and families affected by diabetes.

He conceptualizes the layers of diabetic management as a pyramid. Like the food pyramid, the first steps are the basic staples and other steps follow. Basic, factual knowledge serves as the basis. He discusses other common challenges faced by the family of a young person with diabetes. I particularly liked his sections on communication and on dealing with crises. He shows how certain common family conflicts might play themselves out in a family affected by diabetes.

He does a superb job of discussing the specific self-care steps a young person must master in order to move toward independent diabetes management. Some families and clinicians have set ideas about when a child should manage the diabetes independently. He takes a more moderate view. One must judge the developmental readiness of each individual child and adolescent.

In the section on dealing with the health care team, he talks about gradually allowing the child and then the adolescent to take a more central role in communicating with his care team.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The 10 keys unlock the door to managing diabetes, December 14, 1999

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Michael Bowers (Salem, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ten Keys to Helping Your Child Grow Up With Diabetes, The (Paperback)

This is a very informative book. It is a must-have for those families who have children with diabetes.

Condensing many of the possible things one could say about raising a child with diabetes into 10 key points makes it easy to apply the book to your life.