Teens with Diabetes: A Clinician's Guide
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Teens with Diabetes - Michael A. Harris
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Developmental Demands of Adolescence
If you work with teenagers or they live in your home, you are well aware of their many great qualities. Teenagers are eager to grow up and have new experiences, and have a sense of invincibility mixed with some innocence and naïveté. Your experience with teenagers has also led you to understand their rapidly fluctuating emotions, brazen attitudes, and, at times, difficulty appreciating the importance of taking care of themselves. This chapter will provide a context for why teenagers behave the way they do and how different approaches may be necessary when interacting with teenagers. This chapter will help you when that next adolescent patient shows up in your clinic and displays a defiance of convention, a preference for social priorities over personal priorities, and a sense of invulnerability and invincibility. We also discuss how these adolescent qualities affect diabetes management.
Developmental Context
More than 100 years ago, the child development pioneer G. Stanley Hall described adolescence as a time of storm and stress.
According to Hall (1904), adolescence is marked by three major changes: emotional upheaval, increased risk taking, and extreme parent-child conflict. Hall believed that this period of development is biologically driven and largely universal, but especially problematic for adolescents in the U.S. Hall cited urbanization and individualism as additional causes of storm and stress in U.S. adolescents.
Since Hall’s initial description of adolescence, others have examined the concept of storm and stress empirically. An American psychologist, Jeffrey Arnett (1999), examined adolescents and young adults and coined the term emerging adult, which will be discussed later in the context of transition. In contrast to Hall’s idea of an across-the-board tumultuous time specific to adolescence, Arnett found that rates of psychopathology were relatively consistent from childhood into adolescence and that most youth were not experiencing significant psychological distress. Further, there was no major shift in risk taking during adolescence; however, the consequences of the risks taken by adolescents were much greater than the risks taken by children. Finally, Arnett concurred with Hall in confirming an increase in parent-child conflict as children mature into adolescents.
Arnett’s debunking of Hall’s assertion that adolescence is universally a time of storm and stress, paired with the evidence of unique challenges across biologic, physiologic, and cognitive developments for adolescents, leads to the following assumptions:
• Most adolescent patients do not experience profound psychological distress, but instead experience the normal demands of navigating this developmental period.
• Most adolescent patients do not intend to be difficult.
• You should approach each encounter with an adolescent patient with a fresh perspective, because development will trigger almost daily changes in attitudes, perceptions, and mood.
Further, to be fully prepared to help the adolescent patient in front of you, consider the areas discussed below.
Defiance of Convention
When working with adolescents, most professionals struggle with the normal developmental demand of defiance of convention. Defiance of convention is characterized by pushing against the status quo and challenging authority as a means of developing a sense of self. Teens are trying on a number of personality hats
to define who they are and how they are different from parents and teachers. Besides parents and teachers, health care providers also represent convention. So when teens do not follow the directives of health care providers, they are doing what one would expect developmentally. The single best example of this is the Just Say No
campaign for which former first lady Nancy Reagan was the spokesperson. Data on the effectiveness of the Just Say No
campaign and other similarly messaged campaigns indicate that authority figures used for campaigns targeting teens are of questionable effectiveness (Fishbein 2002). Few represent convention and authority more than the wife of the president of the United States.
I Wonder If She Likes Me?
Teens are generally more focused on their social relationships than on their families. Much of social and moral learning comes from peers rather than parents, which is a shift from childhood, when parents were more influential. Data show that although there is some increase in parent-teen conflict during adolescence, parents can and should remain an important influence in the teen’s life. This influence is different from the influence parents have with younger children. With younger children, it is the spoken message of the parent that affects them. However, with teens, it is the parents’ behavior rather than what they say that carries the most weight. Parents often continue to try to talk some sense
into their teens, as do professionals. It often seems like the teens only hear wah, wah, wah,
as depicted when adults talk in Charlie Brown cartoons. Professionals may not realize that their reminders and lectures (though perhaps necessary) do not have the same impact on a teen as they have on a younger