Session 3 : Working together as a team to meet the difficulties encountered

This session is designed to help you face the daily struggles with Parkinson’s disease as a team. In practice, with the assistance of a virtual nurse and tips shared by experienced couples, you will learn to use three effective strategies:

• Strategy # 1: Managing unpleasant emotions
• Strategy # 2: Using reframing
• Strategy # 3: Solving different problems

With these three key strategies under your belt, you will be better prepared to handle all sorts of difficult or delicate situations. See the summaries in the ”Ways to recognize and to defuse unpleasant emotions”, ”Reframing your thoughts” and ”The problem-solving approach” fact sheets.

Fact sheet

Ways to recognize and to defuse unpleasant emotions

         Reframing your thoughts

         The problem-solving approach

Resource Guide

Complete next session when convenient for you.