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The case study presented highlights the need to both identify and offer an empirically validated couple\u2013based intervention, along with a multi-disciplinary team approach over the trajectory of the illness and at end of life.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1478951509990976_sec2\"><jats:title>Method:<\/jats:title><jats:p>A validated marital protocol (emotionally focused couple therapy [EFT]) is modified for this population and conducted by an EFT-trained psychologist as part of a pilot investigation as to the feasibility and effectiveness of EFT for the terminal cancer population. Measures of marital distress, depression, hopelessness, and attachment security are completed at baseline and subsequent intervals, as reported in another publication. Attachment insecurity and the exquisitely intimate relationship with caregiving and care receiving are underscored, given the couple's traumatic childhood history.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1478951509990976_sec3\"><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>The couple described herein, followed from diagnosis of metastatic disease to end of life illuminates the potential effectiveness of a modified EFT protocol, and underscores the need to both identify and intervene with a population potentially at significantly high risk for marital distress, suicidality, depression, and hopelessness.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1478951509990976_sec4\"><jats:title>Significance of Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>The benefits of a multidisciplinary team is evident as the patient's symptoms of physical distress increased toward end of life and she returned to earlier behaviors, namely suicidal ideation and an attempt to alleviate her experience of suffering. The strength of the marital bond, possibly as a result of the intervention, and the efforts of the multidisciplinary team approach, demonstrate potential to mitigate a catastrophic end of life and a complicated spousal bereavement. 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