Helping Children Manage Diabetes

Diabetes, like all chronic illnesses, impacts all aspects of a person's life, perhaps even more so in childhood. Using a developmental, social-cognitive approach, Dr Alan M. Delamater works closely with children and their parents to help children learn to live with and manage their own diabetes. In this session, Dr Delamater meets with an 8th-grade girl and her mother, helping them first set goals for managing diabetes and then providing them with psychoeducational information for reaching those goals.