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Managing the Stress
of
Diabetes
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Some of the Challenges:
  • Diagnosis
  • Family Life
  • Daily Management
  • Staying up on latest & greatest stuff
  • Friends
  • School
  • Siblings
  • Juggling it all!
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Coping Options for Individuals:
  • Education
  • Meeting others
  • Support Groups
  • Camps
  • CWD
  • Health Care Team
  • Massage
  • Scheduled/unscheduled “falling apart”
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Coping options for the Family:

  • Larger focus, to reduce stress, is on the Family
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Things to reduce stress for the family:
  •  Family emotional supportiveness
    • Between parents -- are mother and father emotionally available to each other?
    • Availability -- is there flexibility with daily schedules?
  • Family organization
    • Joint decision making -- between spouses
    • Value congruence -- between spouses
    • Communications patterns -- are messages about rules clear or confusing?
  • Competence/effectiveness
    • Response to initial symptoms
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Ultimate Goal: for Individuals & Families



  • ACCEPTANCE & LETTING GO
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THANK YOU
&
May the FORCE Be with You!
  • Joe Solowiejczyk, RN MSW CDE
  • (484) 467-0173
  • jsolowie@its.jnj.com