December 8, 2005

Teens Help Control Diabetes with Psychotherapy

Intensive, home-based psychotherapy can significantly reduce diabetes-related stress in adolescents with type 1diabetes, according to a report in journal Pediatrics. \"Although medical care providers often feel frustrated when caring for difficult families such as these,\" Dr. Deborah A. Ellis from Wayne State University , Detroit , told Reuters Health, there are treatments that may improve the psychosocial well-being, adherence and health outcome of teens who do not adhere to treatment of their type I diabetes, also know as \"juvenile\" diabetes.

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