Medical and psychological assistance to adolescents with type I diabetes mellitus

the present study is due to the widespread prevalence of diabetes mellitus in children and insufficient knowledge of a number of its clinical and psychological aspects. Children and adolescents with newly diagnosed DM need individual psychological and pedagogical support, psychotherapeutic assistance is shown to this contingent of patients, which contributes to the creation of partnership relations between the psychologist and the patient, timely psychodiagnostics and psychocorrection of disorders of the anxiety-depressive and phobic spectrum of the neurotic level is necessary for more effective and comprehensive treatment. In connection with the emerging progress in pharmacotherapy, the issues of an integrated approach to the treatment and organization of psychosocial rehabilitation, social adaptation and correction of anxiety-phobic and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents are becoming as urgent as possible.