Diabetes: Caring For Your Emotions As Well As Your Health, Second Edition - Softcover

Edelwich, Jerry; Brodsky, Archie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738200212 ISBN 13: 9780738200217

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 1998

Synopsis

In an era of managed care, the newly diagnosed patient with diabetes goes home to face daily questions about how to cope with the disease. This extensively revised edition of a guide that has become truly indispensable covers all such questions: adjusting to the emotional impact of diabetes; making decisions about diet, exercise, types of medication, and new technology; finding the best care; and facing the uncertainty surrounding complications and their effect on marriage and family, sex, and career choice. A new resource section and up-to-date information on new research and improved self-management make this helpful and understanding book more essential than ever.

About this title

About the Author:

Jerry Edelwich, M.S.W., coauthor (with Archie Brodsky) of Burnout: Stages of Disillusionment in the Helping Professions and Sexual Dilemmas for the Helping Professional, does extensive counseling and lecturing on diabetes, drug and alcohol abuse, and staff burnout. Archie Brodsky, coauthor of Love and Addiction and Medical Choices, Medical Chances, is Research Associate in the Program for Psychiatry and the Law at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School.

From Library Journal:

This comprehensive book's main objective is to offer support for the 11 million Americans who have diabetes. Although it does include factual medical information about the disease, the emphasis here is on changes in lifestyle and family relations resulting from the disease. Covered extensively are diet, exercise, work, medications, sexuality, and new technology. Each chapter addresses the needs of both juvenile and adult onset diabetes patients and includes suggestions for further reading. The style is clear and interesting, with case histories used to illustrate problems and solutions. This is an excellent addition to any general medical collection, as it covers an area usually overlooked. Recommended. Debra Berlanstein, Towson State Univ. Lib., Baltimore
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About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0738200212
• ISBN 13: 9780738200217
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336