Diabetes camp education provides diabetes patients with experiences for the motivation to self-management. Unhealthy management skills to deal with difficulties can function as an obstacle to managing diabetes for patients having psychosocial problems caused by their diabetes diagnosis.
Based on psychosocial understanding of diabetes patients, social workers help diabetes patients to change their false beliefs and poor social supporting system and management skills through individual or group counselling.
Motivational interviewing may facilitate to develop potential abilities for managing diabetes and some activities for dealing with difficulties.
These activities include trainings for anger or stress management and sessions to understand individual psychology or family communication. Such a variety of programs and counselling can help diabetes patients to improve self-management skills, learn health management of difficulties, and get involved with family members in a better supporting system based on the understanding of family communication.