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TypesOfSupportForDiabetesCare
1. Barbara Anderson PhD
Marisa Hilliard PhD
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX
2. Types of Support
EMOTIONAL HANDS-ON
Listening
Normalizing your experience
Laughing with you
Crying with you
Sharing your outrage
Sitting with you quietly
Offering a hand with a
specific need
Taking something off your
plate, lightening your load
Helping you solve a problem
Advocating on your behalf
3. Who are your supports?
Family members
Spouse/partner
Friends
Roommates/Neighbors
Sitters
Teachers/Coaches
Community members (clubs, church, etc.)
Other T1D parents
Online community
Diabetes Care Team
4. You’re not alone.
How can your supports help you?
Asking for assistance with a specific diabetes task can
help direct well-meaning people to be supportive.
What can each of your supports do to be helpful?
Teachers can hold your child’s CGM receiver in class
Friends/neighbors can learn emergency diabetes care
and check in on your child when you’re running late
from work.
5. Tell your supports what would be helpful.
Calm, supportive
communication
Acknowledge, praise
management behaviors
A few reminders
Involved in diabetes
discussions
Problem-solving together
Blame & Shame
Angry communication
Punishing out-of-range
numbers
Nagging
Denying fears/worries,
pretending everything is fine
HELPFUL NOT HELPFUL
6. Don’t hold back.
Talk about your experiences to get support:
Friends, family
Diabetes online community
Caregiver support organizations
Diabetes care team
Model for your child how to express feelings and
advocate for diabetes needs.
7. Take care of yourself and your family
Prioritize fun activities as a family
Protect diabetes, try to reduce conflict
about diabetes
Find humor where you can
Set aside some time for your own needs
8. What has worked for you?
Where do you go for support?
What have you asked from your support network?
Who has been the most surprisingly helpful person?
What did they do?
How do you take time for yourself and why?