Behavioral Diabetes

This book presents an up-to-date review of behavioral factors in diabetes management across the lifespan: an update on medical management, epidemiology, and prognosis, and utilize an ecological framework to address various aspects of diabetes management for children and adults on the individual, social, community and medical system, and policy levels. The individual level examines biobehavioral and neuroendocrine factors for their role in the etiology of diabetes, as well as various demographic factors involved in health disparities, and specific psychological issues including distress and quality of life, depression and anxiety, eating disorders, and intervention approaches. Zooming out, the social level addresses the role of social support and family influences as well as group and family interventions to promote more effective diabetes management. The community level addresses medical system factors including the patient-physician relationship and transition programs, as well as community and school-based prevention programs. Finally, chapters also address how the policy level impacts diabetes management considering the role of health care, insurance, and school and workplace policy.

Topics featured in this book include:

• Neuroendocrine and biobehavioral influences on diabetes
• Eating disorders in individuals with diabetes
• Family influences and family therapies for children and adults with diabetes
• Depression and anxiety in children and adults with diabetes

Behavioral Diabetes is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students and fellows, as well as clinicians, therapists, and other practitioners involved in diabetes management across the lifespan. A secondary audience comprises individuals working in the community and policy levels, including but not limited to health care and medical systems administrators, as well as school and workplace policymakers.

"This book is a comprehensive overview of the extremely important topic of behavioral diabetes. The issues encompassed in this book have evolved greatly over the last few decades and the editors have done a spectacular job in having the key experts on each of the many topics review the literature while at the same time keeping it practical for both clinicians and researchers."
--Irl B. Hirsch, MD, University of Washington, Seattle

Alan M. Delamater, PhD, received his BA in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia. He is Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology and Director of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he has been since 1991. He was previously on the faculty at Washington University and Wayne State University. Dr. Delamater has received many research grants from the NIH and other agencies and has published widely in the field of pediatric psychology, focusing on the psychosocial and behavioral aspects of diabetes and obesity. He has served in leadership positions with the American Diabetes Association, the Society of Pediatric Psychology, the International Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Delamater is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He has received several awards from the Society of Behavioral Medicine, including the LifeScan Diabetes Research Award, the Outstanding Contributions to Research Award from the Child and Family Special Interest Group, the C. Tracy Orleans Distinguished Service Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Child and Family SIG, and the Distinguished Mentor Award. Dr. Delamater reviews regularly for professional journals and granting agencies, is active as a teacher and clinician, and is board-certified in clinical health psychology.

David G. Marrero, PhD, received his PhD in Social Ecology from the University of California Irvine in 1982. He is currently Professor of Public Health and Medicine and Director of Center for Health Disparities Research at University of Arizona Health Sciences. He was previously on the faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Marrero has received numerous research grants and has published widely in the field of diabetes focusing on the psychosocial and behavioral aspects of diabetes and the prevention of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle interventions. He has served as the President for Health Care and Education for the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in 2015 and has participated in several other leadership positions at the ADA. He has received several awards including The Allene Von Son Award for Diabetes Patient Education Tools by the American Association of Diabetes Educators; Alumni of the year at the University of California, Irvine; the Outstanding Educator in Diabetes and the Josiah K. Lilly Distinguished Service Award by the ADA; and was the inaugural recipient of the Bantz-Petronio Translating Research Scholarship into Practice Award from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He also received the Care Continuum Alliance Outstanding Leadership in Population Health Award for Innovative Tools and Technologies to Advance and Evaluate Population Health, and the Rachmiel Levine Medal by the ADA. Dr. Marrero reviews regularly for professional journals and granting agencies, is the Associate Editor for Diabetes Forecast, and is active as a teacher and mentor.