Dealing with the diagnosis of diabetes and the details of daily life that come along with it can be overwhelming. Finding balance is essential to healthy living. Clinical psychologist Dr. Bill Polonsky joins our host Dr. Steven Edelman to discuss common emotional pitfalls that get in the way of diabetes management, and what can be done about them.
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Dr. William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE is the founder and president of the Behavioral Diabetes Institute as well as an Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Yale University and has served as Chairman of the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators, Senior Psychologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is an active researcher in behavioral diabetes, with his most recent projects focusing on the utility of home blood glucose monitoring in type 2 diabetes, the emotional and behavioral consequences of being diagnosed with diabetes, and the value of diabetes self-management support training for health care professionals.
Dr. Polonsky has served on the editorial boards of numerous professional and lay publications, including Diabetes Care, Diabetes Forecast, Clinical Diabetes, Diabetes Self-Management and Diabetes Health. A licensed clinical psychologist and certified diabetes educator, he has also authored Diabetes Burnout: What to Do When You Can’t Take it Anymore, a book for patients published by the American Diabetes Association.