Caregiver’s syndrome: Do you care for someone with a mental illness?

An interactive, educational seminar on Family Psycho Education will be conducted on February 26, at Beach Luxury.

The Recovery House, a project of the Caravan of Life Pakistan Trust is organising a free interactive, educational seminar for families and other supporters of clients dealing with chronic mental illness.

It will be conducted by Dr Uzma Ambareen, M.D., a consultant psychiatrist, Diplomate American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Public Psychiatry Fellow from 3 pm to 6 pm at Beach Luxury Hotel on Sunday. When someone you care about has a serious mental illness, it can be hard on the whole family. You want to help your family member get better, but may not know how.

Family Psychoeducation (FPE) is an evidence-based, structured approach for partnering with clients and families to support recovery. Clients and families receive information about mental illnesses and learn problem-solving, communication, and coping skills.

Would it help if your family understood more about symptoms of mental illness, knew how to help with a mental illness, could help better with recovery, could learn new ways of dealing with common problems caused by the illness or had less stress overall?

For registration, please contact Saira Ali, the director of services at [phone] & 586-3413 or visit www.caravanoflifetrust.org  or email [e-mail].

Published in The Express Tribune, February 25^th, 2012.