Patty Howell

Patty Howell, Ed.M., A.G.C. (aka Patricia F. Howell, born Martha's Vineyard Island, MA, 1943) is a Relationship and Marriage Educator who serves as Vice President of Operations and Media Relations for Healthy Relationships California, a nonprofit organization that works throughout California to deliver Relationship and Marriage Education classes. She regularly presents at professional conferences and consults on topics pertaining to Relationship and Marriage Education both nationally and internationally.
Howell, along with her husband, Ralph Jones, are the co-authors of World Class Marriage (published by Rowman & Littlefield, May 2010, and is also published in 10 countries overseas). Howell and Jones developed the World Class Marriage workshop for couples, a 16-hour skills-based curriculum that is taught as one of Healthy Relationships California's curricula, as well as elsewhere. Howell and Jones have taught relationship skills to thousands of couples, parents, teachers, business leaders as well as certification training workshops to professionals in 14 countries around the world.
Patty Howell is the author of a monograph entitled "The Case for Relationship Education" as well as a series of six Healthy Marriages booklets that contain research citations showing the links between healthy marriages and key social outcomes (published by California Healthy Marriages Coalition, 2008-2010). Howell is a 2010 Smart Marriages Impact Award winner for these booklets. "The Impact Awards are presented to those whose research, books, political or grassroots action, leadership and brilliant conceptualizations have given us new hope about reversing the epidemic of divorce and family breakdown."
Howell also serves as President of Howell-Jones Trainings (Leucadia, CA), which promotes the World Class Marriage workshop for couples. www.worldclassmarriage.com
Howell is a past president of the San Diego Rose Society and founder of the San Diego-Yantai Friendship Rose Garden Committee which created a friendship rose garden of 2000 rose bushes in Yantai, China as a gift to the people of Yantai from its Sister City in San Diego, CA. Her committee also created the 1400-bush Sino-American Friendship Rose Garden in Wuhan, China. She served for more than ten years as the founding president of the Pacific Rim Parks nonprofit organization that has built a unique chain of parks linking nations of the Pacific Rim and built by architecture students from the U.S., Mexico, China, and Russia, under the guidance of internationally-renowned artist James Hubbell.
Education
Howell graduated from Northfield School for Girls (now Northfield Mt. Hermon, in Northfield, MA), and received an A.B. from Drew University (Madison, NJ) in 1965. In 1966, she received an Ed.M. from Boston University in Guidance and Counseling, and in 1970 an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Counseling Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.
Achievements and honors
*Smart Marriages Impact Award—2010
*Port of San Diego Award for Pacific Rim Park, San Diego
*Honorary Citizen, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
*Elliot Day Honoree-Outstanding Graduate Student, Washington University in St. Louis
*Kappa Delta Pi (Honorary Education Society), Washington University in St. Louis
*Honorary Journalism Society, Drew University
Publications
*'Marital status influence on satisfaction/happiness' in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. Michalos, Alex, Editor. SpringerReference (in press).
*The Case for Relationship Education: Creating Social Benefit through Skills Training. (2011) Healthy Relationships California.
*World Class Marriage: How to Create the Relationship You Always Wanted with the Partner You Already Have with Ralph Jones, (2010) Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
*Series of Healthy Marriage booklets: Healthy Marriages, Healthy Lives (2008); Healthy Marriages, Healthy Society (2009); Healthy Marriages, Healthy Children (2009); Healthy Marriages, Healthy Women and Girls (2009); Healthy Marriages and Mental Health (2010); Healthy Marriages, Responsible Fatherhood (2010)l Healthy Marriages Slideshow (2010). California Healthy Marriages Coalition.
*'Marriage Education: An Important Investment in Cultural Change'. The THERAPIST, March/April 2007. http://www.camarriage.com/content/resources/c76dfc8a-2ed8-4551-aab5-380b63febcb8.pdf
*World Class Marriage: How to Create the Relationship You Always Wanted with the Partner You Already Have,with Ralph Jones. Dutch edition by Tirion Uitgevers BV; Hungarian-Magyar Konyvklub; French-Marabout-Hachette; Spanish/Mexico-Editorial Diana; German-Klett-Cotta and pocketbook edition by DTV; Russian-FESTU (Far-Eastern State Technical University); Chinese-Chongqing Publishing House; Polish-Jacek Santorski; Italian-Edizioni La Meridiana; Korean-HOME.
*Health Promotion: A Global Approach to Benefit the Person and Society, co-authored with Dr. Alberto Zucconi (Edizioni La Meridiana, 2003-2 editions).
*Health Promotion in the Workplace Workshop—5 day training program for health professionals by Howell, P., Jones, R. and Zucconi, A. (Istituto Dell'Approccio Centrato sulla Personna, Rome, IT:2003).
*World Class Marriage Workshop for Couples—16 hour skills-based workshop, including Trainer Guide and Participant Workbook, co-authored with Ralph Jones.(1999, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009). Also Train-the-Trainer program for professionals. Taught in U.S., Mexico and Europe. Also translated into Spanish, Korean, Dutch, French, German, Italian.
*'Effective Communication' in Zastrow, C. & Chang, D.H. (1977). The Personal Problem Solver. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Re-released (2002) by Simon & Schuster.
*'Counselor Rating Manual', with John M. Whiteley, Ph.D., in Allen, T.W. & Whiteley, J.M. Dimensions of Effective Counseling. (1968). Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co.

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