Group Therapy With Blind Diabetics
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 37 (4) , 463-467
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1980.01780170105012
Abstract
• In a short-term therapy group for adult diabetics who were going blind, the issues most frequently raised concerned diabetic control, complications (including fear of death and retinopathy), rehabilitation, relationship with others, and group awareness. The meetings helped participants understand and accept their condition and begin rehabilitation. "Limbo" as an important and difficult experience is elucidated. We make recommendations for implementing these findings with other newly blind patients.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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