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Tamara Goldman Sher

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Tamara Goldman Sher, Ph.D., is a Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Family Institute at Northwestern University (TFI). She has worked as a health psychologist specializing in couples for 29 years, has written over 30 articles, edited or authored three books, certified British therapists in CBT for couples in conjunction with the British National Health Service, and taught at every higher education level from undergraduates to post-doctoral fellows. She still loves research, teaching, and clinical work.

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Dr. Sher received her BA from the University of Michigan with a major in Psychology, where her honors thesis was on the interpersonal aspects of depression and entitled, The effects of depression on roommates of depressed undergraduates. She then received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she found her passion in couples’ therapy and wrote her dissertation Marital Communication: Differences Between...

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  • Domas, A. J., Levinson, S., & Sher, T. G. (2005a). Mini-size me: Changes in fat intake for cardiac patients and their partners after a 12-week lifestyle intervention and 12 month follow-up. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 105(Supplement, 8), A-42.

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  • Domas, A. J., Levinson, S., & Sher, T. G. (2005b). Not necessarily two peas in a pod: Fruit and vegetable intake of cardiac patients and partners after a 12-week lifestyle intervention program and follow-up. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 105(Supplement, 8), A-48.

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  • Du Bois, S. N., Sher, T. G., Grotkowski, K., Aizenman, T., Slesinger, N., & Cohen, M. (2016). Going the distance. The Family Journal, 24(1), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/1066480715616580.

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  • Greene, G., Resnicow, K., Thompson, F., Peterson, K. E., Hurley, T. G., Hebert, J. R., Williams, G. C., Elliot, D. L., Goldman Sher, T., Domas, A., Midthune, D., Stacewicz-Sapuntzakis, M., Yaroch, A. L., & Nebeling, L. (2008). Correspondence of the NCI fruit and vegetable screener to repeat 24h recalls and serum carotenoids in behavioral intervention trials. Journal of Nutrition, 138, 185S–192S.

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  • Levin, J. B., Sher, T. G., & Theodos, V. (1997). The effect of intracouple coping concordance on psychological and marital distress in infertility patients. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 4(4), 1361–1372.

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  • Schmaling, K., & Sher, T. G. (2000). The psychology of couples and illness: Theory, research, and practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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  • Sher, T. G., & Baucom, D. H. (1993). Marital communication: Differences among maritally distressed, depressed, and nondistressedondepressed couples. Journal of Family Psychology, 7(1), 1148–1153.

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  • Sher, T. G., & Baucom, D. H. (2002). Mending a broken heart: A couples approach to cardiac risk reduction. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 125–133.

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  • Sher, T. G., Cella, D. F., Serafian, B., & Leslie, W. (1993). An old procedure with a new population: The use of the communication box in a medical setting. The Behavior Therapist, 16, 248–250.

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  • Sher, T. G., Cella, D. F., Leslie, W. T., Bonomi, P., Taylor, S. G., & Serafian, B. (1997). Communication differences between physicians and their patients in an oncology setting. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.

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  • Sher, T. G., Houle, T., Braun, L. T., Baucom, D. H., Bellg, A., & Domas, A. (2014). The partners for life program: A couples approach to cardiac risk reduction. Family Process, 53, 131–149.

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Sher, E. (2018). Sher, Tamara Goldman. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1146-1

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