When Diabetes Hits Home [Paperback]

Wendy Satin Rapaport (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0945448880 | ISBN-13: 978-0945448884 | Publication Date: August 1, 1998 | Edition: 1

Readers can explore the emotions that people with diabetes and their family members must cope with throughout their lives. When Diabetes Hits Home deals with the necessary mourning period people experience at diagnosis and discusses support, coping, and family structure. Also discusses how parents, spouses, children, siblings, grandparents, friends, neighbors, and their healthcare teams successfully manage their relationships and define their rights and responsibilities with the person with diabetes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: American Diabetes Association; 1 edition (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0945448880
• ISBN-13: 978-0945448884
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,850,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book hit home with me!!, September 7, 1998

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This review is from: When Diabetes Hits Home (Paperback)

I normally turn my nose up at these psycho-babble type books that pretend to know what it is that I'm going through as a person with diabetes for over 20 years. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book was real. Dr. Rapaport hits a lot of familiar chords, and knows her subject inside and out. She is not patronizing, and her style is clear and easy to follow. I found that I was able to apply her method of positive reframing not only to my diabetes related situations, but to my every day life situations as well. I strongly recommend this book for anyone living with diabetes, for the patient herself, or family, friends and significant others. I hope to see more of Dr. Rapaport's writing in the future. Thanks to her for giving me an improved way to deal.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars comprehensive covers all kinds of families, July 30, 1998

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Lisa Ericson "Celebration Mom" (Celebration, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Diabetes Hits Home (Paperback)

This book is for anyone who lives with, is related to, is a friend of or knows someone with diabetes as well as for the person with diabetes. Some may think this book is for a nuclear family with one person who has diabetes but, the author covers many different realtionships like older grandparents and how their children or even grandchildren can relate to them. The book contains cited resources for further reading and many personal vignettes from the author's professional and personl experiences. Dr. Rapaport goes beyond describing the usual exercise, diet and medication management aspects of living with and coping with diabetes. She includes instruction in stress reduction, relaxation techniques, practical examples in assertive communication and other perspectives about living with diabetes. Attitiude and how it impacts on diabetes care and relationships is explored at length. For example, if one views diabetes as a psychosocial and spiritual condition with the medica! l complications the focus of treatment is on the lifestyle and relationships in the person with diabetes life.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical advice: witty, wise, compassionate, April 2, 2004

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Thoughtful Reader (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Diabetes Hits Home (Paperback)

This guide to emotional health focuses on families learning to cope with diabetes--but it is far more than that. The practical advice, tools for learning new coping skills, and stories about real people's struggles to adapt to their disease is inspiring for everyone dealing with the stress of illness. Dr. Rapaport synthesizes psychological strategies from her decades of research and practice to provide clear, straightforward, common-sense advice for the entire family to use everyday. Best of all, her style is breezy, often funny, and full of compassion and insight. She knows not only because she has academic credentials but because she has been there hereself.