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Diabetes, like all chronic illnesses, impacts all aspects of a person's life, perhaps even more so in childhood. Using a developmental, social-cognitive approach, Dr. Alan M. Delamater works closely with children and their parents to help children learn to live with and manage their own diabetes. In this session, Dr. Delamater meets with an 8th-grade girl and her mother, helping them first set goals for managing diabetes and then providing them with psychoeducational information for reaching those goals.
The therapeutic approach is informed by social cognitive learning theory as well as a developmental family-systems model. Effective therapy begins with comprehensive assessment, identification of patient strengths as well as problem areas, and consideration of developmental issues and family relationships that help in understanding the nature of the patient's presenting problems. This process leads to a case formulation, which when communicated with the patient, leads directly to specification of goals and the therapy approaches to be used.
Alan M. Delamater, PhD, ABPP, received his doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1981. He is currently professor of pediatrics and director of clinical psychology at the Mailman Center for Child Development and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he has been since 1991. Prior to that, he was on the psychology faculty at Washington University (1981–1987) and Wayne State University (1997–1991). As a researcher, he has consistently received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies and has published widely in the field of pediatric psychology. Although most of his research has focused on psychosocial and behavioral aspects of diabetes in children and adolescents, he has also published in a number of other areas, such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, and cardiovascular disease. He has served frequently as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and is on the editorial boards of several professional journals. As a teacher, he has chaired over 30 dissertations, master's theses, and honor's theses. He is active as a clinician, and is board certified in clinical health psychology.
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