Type 1 Teens: A Guide to Managing Your Life With Diabetes. This item is unavailable.Type 1 Teens: A Guide to Managing Your Life With Diabetes

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.

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.