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Best Practices

Best Practices and Interventions

In developing the Healthy Marriages, Relationships, and Families: Interventions, Research and Policy course for graduate and doctoral students, evidenced-based practice was considered to be a critical framework for content.  Therefore literature reviews were conducted to address key issues and subject matter.  The following documents were developed as a result.

Elements of a Healthy Couple Relationship

Elements of a Healthy Couple Relationship Consumer Exercises

When parenting, Elements of a Healthy Couple Relationship

Elements of a Healthy Co-Parenting Alliance

Best Practices for Relationship Education - Outline of Literature Points

Best Practices for Relationship Education and Child Welfare/Low Resource Populations - Outline of Literature Points

Marriage and Relationship Education and Child Safety, the Child Welfare System and Child Welfare Workers

Child Welfare Worker's Communication Toolkit - Simple reference guides of key communication skills including assertiveness, I-messages, decision-making and conflict resolution.