If your teenager lives with diabetes, you've learned to watch the numbers: the A1c, the time in range, the endless readings. But the numbers can only tell you how your child's body is coping. They say almost nothing about how your child is coping.

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Beyond the Numbers is a warm, plain-language guide to the emotional side of diabetes that so often goes unseen. Grounded in current research and told through real stories from clinical practice, it helps parents recognize and respond to the mental-health struggles that so frequently ride alongside the disease — the exhaustion of diabetic distress, the search for identity and meaning, the trauma that can follow a frightening low, the attention and executive-function challenges so easily mistaken for irresponsibility, disordered eating and diabulimia, and the strain diabetes places on the whole family.

Most importantly, every chapter turns from what's wrong to what helps: practical, compassionate guidance for caring not just for your child's diabetes, but for your child.