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Taking Care of Your Child Emotionally in Dealing With Diabetes
Diabetes can take an emotional toll on your child (and you!). Here are a few ideas on how to you can support your child/teen.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Developmental Milestones
Provides downloadable resources and videos to help parents track their children's development and act early if they have any concerns.
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child's Fears, Worries, and Phobias by Tamar E. Chansky
In Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, a childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette’s Syndrome, hair-pulling, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety.
Growing Up Brave: Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety by Donna Pincus, PhD
In Growing Up Brave, Dr. Pincus helps parents identify and understand anxiety in their children, outlines effective and convenient parenting techniques for reducing anxiety, and shows parents how to promote bravery for long-term confidence.
You and Your Anxious Child by Anne Marie Albano
One of the world’s foremost experts on anxiety in children provides a guide to recognizing and alleviating a range of debilitating fears.
Diabetes Apps
Find diabetes apps for you phone to help you with carb counting, keeping track of your blood sugar, calories intake and more.
SparkRecipes
Find and rate low calorie, healthy recipes at SparkRecipes. Use the free recipe calculator to find the calories, carbs, fat and protein in your recipes.
Early Intervention Agency - Delaware
Early Intervention (EI): Coordinated by the Child Development Watch program in the Division of Public Health. Serves children ages 0-3 years.
Who to call for help?
- New Castle county: 302-283-7240
- Kent and Sussex counties: 302-424-7300
No charges for assessments; services are billed to family’s insurance company.
Mental Health and Congenital Heart Disease: A Review
Lyla El-Messidi Hampton, PhD, ABPP-CN, pediatric neuropsychologist and co-director of the Cardiac Kids Developmental Follow-up Program at CHOP, and Nicholas Seivert, PhD, psychologist in the Cardiac Center at CHOP, review the many reasons for increased mental health risk among children with heart defects, especially single ventricle patients, and provide information about: importance of early identification and intervention; ADHD meds for CHD patients; the higher rate of autism spectrum disorders in this population; the parental distress loop; screening in primary care, and red flags; places to refer at CHOP; and more.