Couples and Illness, DVD

With Tamara Goldman Sher, PhD Closed CaptionedRunning Time: Over 100 minutesCopyright: 2007 ORDER CODE: APA4310780In 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.ApproachThe 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 func