Table 1 Reflection sheets for adolescents

Reflection sheets

Written invitation to work together in a new way

Two ways to look at HbA1c

Important events and periods in your life

What do you find difficult at present living with your diabetes?

Your plans for changing your way of life

Agreement on things to work with till next visit

2. visit

Values and opportunities

Reflection sheets

Unfinished sentences: needs, values, experiences and opportunities?

Agreement on things to work with till next visit

3. visit

Diabetes in your life - now and in the future

Reflection sheets

Blood sugar checks and your reasons for checking

A picture or a metaphor, or expression describing your life with diabetes

Room for your diabetes in your life

Shared responsibility for your diabetes in daily life between you and your parents

Agreement on things to work with till next visit

4. visit

Different ways to look upon numbers

Reflection sheets

Your blood-sugar numbers as you would wish them to be and as you know them from experience

Evidence for advantages and disadvantages of high and low blood sugar

Your plan for blood sugar regulation in the short and long run

Situations where you want to avoid low blood sugar

Agreement on things to work with till next visit

5. visit

Problem-identification

Reflection sheets

Current problem-solving

Agreement on things to work with till next visit

6. visit

Problem solving and options of new ways to self-management

Reflection sheets

Dynamic problem-solving

Pros and cons

Agreement on things to work with till next visit

7. visit

Problem-identification

Reflection sheets

Current problem-solving

Agreement on things to work with till next visit

8. visit

Problem solving and options of new ways to self-management

Reflection sheets

Dynamic problem-solving

Pros and cons

Solved problems and subjects to continue to work with in future outpatients appointments