The Mask of Caregiving

Online, October 14, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Halloween offers the annual luxury of putting on a mask and becoming anyone or anything, but the truth is that many of us wear masks all the time! Dr. Jamie Huysman, LCSW, CAP, Director of The Caregiver for Boomer-Living.com, offers insight in his article "Trick or Treat? - The Masks of Caregiving" found at http://www.boomer-living.com/2010/10/trick-or-treat-the-masks-of-caregiving/.

Dr. Jamie, LCSW, CAP, is a leading authority and speaker on caregiver burnout, compassion fatigue and addictions. He believes in the resilience of the human spirit and is dedicated to uplifting, inspiring and supporting all those in Family & Professional First Responder™ roles. To this end, he runs wellness workshops and trainings for corporations, organizations and professional and family caregivers. He writes a blog for Psychology Today entitled "Life in the Recovery Room" and sits on the NASW committee to establish national protocols for certification and standardization of caregiving practices. He created the Leeza's Place program, a psycho-social, community drop in model providing free services and support for family caregivers on behalf of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, which he co-founded in 2002. In 2008 he was honored as the NASW Social Worker of the Year in the State of Florida.
Dr. Huysman is frequently called upon by the media as a guest expert on caregiving, senior addiction, compassion fatigue, caregiver burnout and reality television. He was co-author of the acclaimed Take Your Oxygen First: Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss and contributed to Voices of Caregiving and Voices of Alcoholism.
He is the Professional's Issues editor for Today's Caregiver Magazine and www.caregiver.com. CaregiversinRecovery.com offers an online support forum for Family and Professional First Responders in 12-Step recovery. He also offers a bi-monthly "Motivation & Inspiration" e-newsletter under his Dr. Jamie brand. Dr. J is an original collaborator of in grassroots effort to seek Human Rights for Caregivers under the UN Articles of 1948 at CaregiverRightsNow.com. His personal website is www.drjamie.com.