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Diabetes Lifestyle Book

Diabetes Lifestyle Book

Facing Your Fears and Making Changes for a Long and Healthy Life

by Jennifer Gregg, Glenn Callaghan and Steven C. Hayes

Published by: New Harbinger Publications

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

240 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

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9781572245167
Published: September 2007

$16.95

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9781608822430
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You’ve been diagnosed with diabetes. Now what? Your doctor has given you directions on what you can do to control your blood sugar. Now you need to find a way to commit to smart choices for better health. And you need to deal with some uncomfortable feelings that might arise in the process. This book offers a powerful and proven new approach that can help you make it happen.

Based on new research using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a bold new direction in psychology, these techniques will help you move past cravings, find motivation to exercise, and manage anxiety that you might feel when you test your blood sugar level. You’ll learn how to embrace the changes you’ll need to make in order to jumpstart your new, healthful lifestyle.

Jennifer Gregg, PhD, is a full professor in the department of psychology at San Jose State University; and a clinical psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, where she works with cancer patients and their families. She is an ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer, and has been delivering, conducting research studies, and training clinicians in ACT and other mindfulness-based approaches since 1997.

Glenn M. Callaghan, PhD, is associate professor of psychology at San Jose State University and a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and Western Psychological Association. He is an internationally recognized expert in functional analytic psychotherapy and functional assessment methodology.

Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor in the department of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has been president of numerous professional organizations, is author of forty-five books and nearly 650 scientific articles, and is among the most cited living psychologists. He has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and is originator and codeveloper of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT): a powerful therapy method that is useful in a wide variety of areas; relational frame theory (RFT): an empirical program in language and cognition; and process-based therapy (with Stefan G. Hofmann).

Diabetes is a modern day epidemic not likely to be cured in the near future by medical science. Gregg and colleagues have put together a coherent, compassionate, and useable guide for those suffering with diabetes which not only outlines processes involved in living successfully with diabetes, but processes involved in living successfully with the many difficult things that are so often involved in the business of being a human being.

—Kevin Vowles, Ph.D., clinical psychologist with both Pain Management Unit Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases and the University of Bath

Diabetes Lifestyle Book

Facing Your Fears and Making Changes for a Long and Healthy Life

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