Chronic Hope - Bonnie O'Neil

Normalizes the unhealthy emotional responses associated with raising a child with chronic illness Offers a vision for navigating the emotional stress of raising a child with chronic illness with greater clarity and hope Addresses, through story and self-reflection questions, the particular demands placed on caregivers of a child with type 1 diabetes Cultivates healthy relationships between parents and children with a chronic illness Provides a vision of parenting where fatigue, fear, and anger are replaced with grace, courage, and love Empowers parents to become wiser, more patient and loving, not despite their child's chronic disease but because of it Epidemiologic studies suggest as many as 1 out of 4 children in the U.S., or 15 to 18 million children ages 17 and younger, suffer from a chronic health problem. In the U.S. alone, 20,000 children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes annually and more than 200,000 children live with type 1 diabetes Addresses the need for the development of interventions to reduce parenting stress among pediatric chronic illness populations as identified in a 2013 systematic review of ninety-six peer-reviewed studies in twelve countries between 1980 and 2012.