Dyadic Coping: Managing Caregiving Stress as a Couple

Talia is Assistant Attending Psychologist and Director of the Family Therapy Clinic at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York. Her interests have focused on identifying and addressing the support needs and relational distress of couples and families in the context of life threatening illness. Dr. Zaider directs an outpatient clinic that provides psychotherapeutic support to couples and families under care at MSKCC, and is leading a funded research study to advance the role of inpatient oncology nurses to deliver family-centered supportive care in the acute care setting. Over the last decade, Dr. Zaider has developed and led training modules to support oncology providers in addressing family distress. She has served as a co-investigator on randomized controlled trials testing psychosocial support interventions for couples and families coping with early and advanced stage disease.