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Promoting and Integrating Behavioral Health

Supporting the emotional well-being of the person with diabetes is a foundational element of the care a diabetes care and education specialists provides. It’s helping individuals work through the daily challenges that can go hand-in-hand with diabetes. PROJECT VISION seeks to cement this as a core skill of diabetes care and education specialists.



Featured AADE Blog Post

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Behavioral Health: A Foundation of Diabetes Management

By Nicole Bereolos, PhD, MPH, CDE

The boundaries across therapeutic interventions are blurring as we manage diabetes and its cardiovascular comorbidities. Increasingly, diabetes care and education specialists are addressing cardiovascular health in our persons with diabetes. But what is driving this intertwining of metabolic and cardiovascular conditions? 

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Featured Article

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Promoting and Integrating Behavioral Health Into Diabetes Care

By Karen Kemmis, PT, RN, DPT, MS, GCS, CDE, FAADE

As diabetes care and education specialists, it is imperative that we include mental health in our evaluations and interventions when working with an individual with diabetes, prediabetes, or other cardiometabolic conditions. This is so important that one of the key areas of focus for AADE’s PROJECT Vision, the future vision for our specialty, is The Promotion and Integration of Behavioral Health Into Diabetes Care.

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Focus On: Mental Health and Diabetes

Mental health is now recognized as a critical component of any diabetes care plan because if issues go unrecognized and untreated, care can become undermined and diabetes management impeded. Diabetes care and education specialists have a critical role to play in helping people with diabetes get the help they need because they are perfected positioned to notice when an individual is experiencing distress and can serve as that connector to mental health professionals.

Read AADE’s practice paper on mental health, watch videos from CDEs who have incorporated mental health support into their practice, learn more about disordered eating and access key educational programs and journal content. Also download PWD-focused tip sheets on Anger, Stress, Depression and Diabetes Distress in English and Spanish.

Anger

Anger and Diabetes

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Also available in Spanish/Español

Stress

Stress and Diabetes

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Also available in Spanish/Español

Depression

Depression and Diabetes

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Also available in Spanish/Español

Distress

Distress and Diabetes

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Also available in Spanish/Español



Related Education 

Online Course: AADE7 Self-Behaviors
Learn the evidence-based framework of the seven key behaviors essential to providing effective DSMES: healthy eating, being active, monitoring, taking medications, problem solving, reducing risks and healthy coping. 7 CE

Recorded Webinar: Shame and Diabetes: Practicing Resilience in a Culture of Weight Stigma, Disordered Eating and Healthism 
Will explore the concept and negative effects of weight shaming and how encouraging behavior change can really impact overall health. 1 CE, 60 minutes

    Recorded Webinar: AADE’s Practical Approach to Mental Health for the Diabetes Care and Education Specialist 
    Reviews AADE's new practice paper and offers clinical scenarios that aid real world implementation. 1 CE, 60 minutes

    Recorded Webinar: No One Understands Me! Helping People Live Well with Diabetes
    Explores helping combat the negative effects of diabetes distress in an interactive way. 1 CE, 60 minutes

    Recorded Webinar: Mental Illness and Diabetes in Vulnerable Populations: Developing a Diabetes Champion Program
    Shows how a diabetes champion program was created to address the prevalence of diabetes in people with serious mental illness, educate and empower staff to become diabetes resources, and create a position for a full-time diabetes specialist to address the needs of these individuals. 1 CE, 60 minutes

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