Type 1 Teens: A Guide to Managing Your Diabetes - Softcover

Hood, Korey K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433807882 ISBN 13: 9781433807886

Publisher: Magination Press, 2010

Synopsis

Provides teens with a variety of strategies and tips to manage their day-to-day lives with Type 1 diabetes. It gives teens honest and straightforward facts and advice on a host of important issues, including dealing with family and friends; navigating school and future plans; relationships and sex; and alcohol and drugs This primer on the basics of life with Type 1 diabetes empowers teens to be their own best advocates and helps them aquire the psychological and social tools to prepare for a long, healthy life.|Type 1 diabetes might be part of some teens' lives, but it doesn't have to run their lives. Type 1 Teen gives teens a slew of strategies and tips to manage their day-to-day lives with Type 1 diabetes. This book gives teens honest and straightforward facts and advice on issues including dealing with family and friends; navigating school and future plans; relationships and sex; and alcohol and drugs. This primer on the basics of life with Type 1 empowers teens to be their own best advocates and helps them acquire the psychological and social tools to prevent diabetes burnout and prepare for a long, healthy life.

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About the Author

Korey K. Hood, PhD, is an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. A licensed clinical and health psychologist who has worked in specialty diabetes clinics providing behavioral health services, he lives in San Francisco. Type 1 Teens is his first book. Bryan Ische is a freelance illustrator and designer currently living and operating out of Minneapolis, MN. He graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD) in 2009 with a BFA in Illustration. He is the illustrator of Type 1 Teens and On Your Own. Follow him on Twitter: @bryanische and Instagam: @bryanische.

Edition details

• Publisher: Magination Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433807882
• ISBN 13: 9781433807886
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Ische Bryan
• Number of pages: 150