Full Description
Sometimes living with a condition like type 1 diabetes can be a mammoth task. How to Manage a Mammoth is a book for children and families living with type 1 diabetes. Join Jake, his Mum and Mel the diabetes mammoth as they join forces with their friends to become a super-team and work out how to shrink Mel to a manageable size. This fun and imaginative story helps children to understand the challenges they face living with diabetes and assists them in communicating with their carers about their feelings. Featuring a list of tasks and activities that children and parents can do to help manage the psychological challenges of living with diabetes. An ideal resource for parents and carers supporting a child with type 1 diabetes, as well as the wider diabetes healthcare team, including clinical psychologists, specialist nurses, endocrinologists and general practitioners.
Contents
1. This is me; 2. This is mum; 3. This is Mel; 4. Me and Mum have made a plan to shrink Mel; 5. We did it; 6. Activities.
