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In Couples and Illness, Dr. Tamara Goldman Sher demonstrates her approach to working with couples in which one or both partner suffers from an illness. The goal of this therapy is to help the couple understand how the illness or recovery process affects the couple's relationship, and identify resources that will help the couple to cope. In this session, Dr. Sher helps a couple deal with older relationship issues that have affected their ability to rebound as a couple from the stress of a recent serious illness, concomitant surgery, and the return to health.
The goal of both therapy and assessment with couples facing medical problems is to better understand the reciprocal relationship among the couple's functioning and illness processes. The therapist, the patient, and the partner explore how the illness and recovery process affects the couple and how the couple's functioning affects the illness and recovery process.
Tamara Goldman Sher, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Sher's focuses include couples and illness, couples and communication, women's health, and behavioral medicine. Currently, she is working on a project funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute entitled "A Couples Approach to Cardiac Risk Reduction," which explores the advantage of working with couples facing cardiac disease in favor of a more traditional patient-centered approach. She is coauthor of the book The Psychology of Couples and Illness: Theory, Research, and Practice (with K. B. Schmaling; American Psychological Association, 2000) as well as numerous other articles. Dr. Sher lectures extensively on the topic of couples and health to both lay and professional audiences.
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