User:Patty Howell

Patty Howell, Ed.M., A.G.C.
Patty Howell (aka Patricia F. Howell, born Martha's Vineyard Island, MA, 1943), is a Marriage and Relationship Educator who serves as Vice President of Operations and Media Relations for the California Healthy Marriages Coalition (CHMC), a nonprofit organization that works throughout California to deliver Marriage Education/Relationship Education classes. She, along with her husband, Ralph Jones, are the co-authors of 'World Class Marriage' (Rowman & Littlefield, May 2010), and which has also been published in 10 countries overseas. Howell and Jones also developed the 'World Class Marriage workshop for couples', a 16-hour skills-based curriculum that is one of CHMC's top-rated Marriage Education curricula. Howell and Jones have taught relationship skills to thousands of couples, parents, teachers, business leaders as well as Train-the-Trainer workshops to professionals in 14 countries around the world.

Patty Howell is the author of a series of six 'Healthy Marriages' booklets, which 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 reconceptualizations have given us new hope about reversing the epidemic of divorce and family breakdown".[1]

Howell also serves as President of Howell-Jones Trainings (Leucadia, CA), which promotes the World Class Marriage workshop for couples. 

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,China from the people 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;

Honorary Citizen, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China;

Elliot Day Honoree—Outstanding Graduate Student, Washington University;

Kappa Delta Pi (Honorary Education Society), Washington University; Honorary Journalism Society, Drew University

Publications

•	'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). California Healthy Marriages Coalition.

•	'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 Könyvklub; French—Marabout-Hachette; Spanish/Mexico—Editorial Diana; German—Klett-Cotta + pocketbook edition by DTV; Russian—FESTU; 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 for couples, including Trainer Guide and Participant Workbook, co-authored with Ralph Jones (1999, 2001, 2003, 2007). Also Train-the-Trainer program for professionals. Taught to enthusiastic response in U.S. and Europe. Also translated into Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian.

•	'World Class Marriage Online'—(offered through the Marriage Education Institute, 2005). 6-week, distance-learning course for couples, individuals and professionals who work with couples.

•	'Mental Aerobics: How to Keep Your Mental Marbles after Age 40'; 68,000-word unpublished manuscript. Comprehensive review of literature; practical, systemic approach reversing aging impact on mental abilities.

•	'Authored comprehensive relationship-skills and management training programs' for professional and lay audiences, developing trainers’ guides and participant materials, creating programs successfully taught in U.S. and Europe.

•	Effective Communication in Zastrow, C. & Chang, D.H. (1977). 'The Personal Problem Solver'. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chapter prompted publisher’s praise and offer to publish expanded book-length manuscript. 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. Republished, 2002, by Simon & Schuster.

-- Footnotes: 1) Diane Sollee, Founder/Director of Smart Marriages (Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, LLC).

Link to profile on Patty Howell in the Capitol Weekly, Sacramento. http://www.123people.com/ext/frm?ti=person%20finder&search_term=patty%20howell&search_country=US&st=person%20finder&target_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.capitolweekly.net%2Farticle.php%3Fxid%3Dyggvc5pupm50d5&section=weblink&wrt_id=217