Cope with stress and emotions

Description

• Stanford Self-Management Programs

  Registration Required

  These programs are designed to help people gain self-confidence in their ability to control their symptoms and how their health problems affect their lives.  Program meetings are highly interactive, focusing on building skills, sharing experiences, and support.En español

  Stanford School of Medicine

• Behavioral Diabetes Institute

  The Behavioral Diabetes Institute is an organization dedicated to helping people with diabetes live long, healthy, and happy lives.  This website provides an array of evidence-based clinical programs, all designed to help people overcome the emotional and behavioral obstacles to living well with diabetes.

  Behavioral Diabetes Institute (BDI)

• Lighten Up Lizzie!

  This flyer provides easy steps to take charge of stress to manage your health and live healthier.

  Prescription Solutions

• AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors Handouts

  These handouts provide basic information about the seven different areas to focus on when you are trying to manage your diabetes. Each one includes facts, tips, advice, and activities that will get you started on your self-care and reinforce the lessons you learn in diabetes education sessions. This page contains links to handouts that are available in both English and Spanish.

  American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)

• Focus on Diabetes

  These interactive online lessons are designed to educate you on topics such as diabetes management, healthy eating, physical activity, medication, glucose levels, monitoring, and more.

  University of Georgia

• Bring Your Life Into Balance Toolkit

  This toolkit includes articles, videos, and other materials to help you attain greater emotional health and balance in your life.

  HelpGuide

• Living a Balanced Life with Diabetes: A Toolkit Addressing Psychosocial Issues for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples

  Living a Balanced Life with Diabetes: A Toolkit Addressing Psychosocial Issues for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples can help health care professionals address psychosocial issues with American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. The toolkit contains a variety of culturally appropriate materials.

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• Healthy Coping in Diabetes: A Guide for Program Development and Implementation

  The guide is designed for managers of diabetes self-management programs, diabetes educators, and others implementing self-management programs who are interested in how they can better incorporate strategies to address negative emotions and enhance healthy coping.

  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Taking Control of Your Diabetes

  This tip sheet and web site talks about the emotional consequences of diabetes and how to cope. It includes information about how psychologists can help with diabetes management.

  American Psychological Association (APA)

• Diabetes Self-Management: Emotional Health

  A subsection of the Diabetes Self-Management website, this collection of articles provides tips on managing stress, dealing with depression, communicating with your loved ones, and finding support groups and other kinds of help.

  Diabetes Self-Management

• MedLinePlus

  This website provides mental health information related to conditions, treatment, therapies, and coping strategies.

  U.S. National Library of Medicine

• Tips for Teens with Diabetes: Diabetes and Your Feelings

  Registration Required

  This colorful, easy-to-read tip sheet encourages teens with type 2 diabetes to feel OK about themselves and their diabetes. It provides tips to help them deal with the ups and downs of diabetes–to reach out and get support from others, to involve their family and the health care team, and to take action to manage the disease for a long and healthy life.

  NDEP

• American Psychological Association: Health and Wellness

  This website provides information on how stress impacts health along with steps to take to stay emotionally balanced and lay the foundation for complete wellness.

  American Psychological Association

• DAWN Dialogue Tools

  These validated patient survey tools work to assess patient and health care professional attitudes, wishes, and needs in diabetes management, a vital and valuable part of patient-centred quality of care improvement.

  DAWN (Diabetes Attitutes, Wishes, and Needs) Study

• Diabetes Initiative

  This website provides access to program models, tools, and resources to enable health care professionals to provide self-management support for adults with diabetes in real world clinical and community settings.En español

  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Diabetes 101: Successful Strategies of Caring for a Client with Diabetes

  These PowerPoint training seminars were created to help community health workers better serve and improve the health of native Hawaiians and other Pacific people with diabetes.

  Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with Diabetes

  This inspirational booklet, written by Dr. Steven Covey, features seven habits that can help you with diabetes management. Learn to become more effective in managing your diabetes on your own, with your medical team, and with your family and friends.

  Bayer Diabetes Care

• Full Circle Diabetes Program

  This program will help you develop holistic program interventions to build support for diabetes care in the community.

  Minneapolis American Indian Center

• Diabetes Etiquette

  Cost Associated

  This tip sheet provides information on how family members and friends can interact with those with diabetes in a polite and helpful manner.

  Behavioral Diabetes Institute (BDI)

• Better Choices, Better Health

  This free workshop helps older adults get the support they need and find practical ways to deal with pain, fatigue, and stress. Older adults can also discover better nutrition and exercise choices, understand new treatment options, and learn better ways to talk with their doctor and family about their health.

  National Council on Aging (NCOA)

• Readiness-to-Change Ruler 

  The Readiness-to-Change ruler can be used as a quick assessment of a person’s motivational state related to changing a specific behavior. Its use can lead to identification and discussion of perceived barriers to change.

  American Society on Aging and American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Foundation