Weekly Faculty Showcase Spotlight: James S. Huddleston
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Posted by TASC, March 30, 2007
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About the Faculty Showcase: This year’s Showcase is an opportunity to learn about the role technology is playing in teaching, learning, and research across the College. A series of posters will be on display to highlight innovative work being done by over fifteen Simmons College faculty members.
This Week: James S. Huddleston
DEPARTMENT: School of Health Studies
POSTER TITLE: Care for the Care Giver: A Hybrid Course
The focus of this hybrid course is to explore and experience self-care strategies that help to decrease stress, improve personal health and strengthen professional skills. We become better care-givers when we devote the time and energy to take better care of ourselves. The health care professions are populated with compassionate care givers who often find themselves overwhelmed by the consequences of their compassion: an imbalance between work and play, between care giving and self-care. Individuals often simultaneously assume multiple roles within the continuum of student, health care professional and care giver. As this may be especially true for women, who tend to assume more responsibility for care giving in both their personal and professional lives, the impact on the health of the Simmons College community may be significant. The goal of this course is to help students/caregivers become aware of the degree of balance in their lives, and begin to apply a biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care on both a personal self-care and professional care giving level.
