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Relationships

How Healthy Is Your Relationship?

Carroll College

How healthy is your relationship? A self-assessment

Healthy Romantic Relationships During College

While the early months of a relationship are often effortless and exciting, successful long-term relationships involve ongoing effort and compromise by both partners. Because relationship skills are rarely "taught", sometimes one or both partners just may not know how to establish and maintain a healthy and mutually satisfying relationship.

Texas Woman's University

Information regarding healthy and unhealthy relationships

University of Oregon Counseling Center

Signs of an abusive relationship

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Other Internet Resources

Campus Blues

Information about challenges and issues faced by college students.

Go Ask Alice

Interactive web-site from the Columbia University Health Services. Includes lively answers to questions commonly asked by college students in many areas, including general health, sexuality, fitness and nutrition, drugs and alcohol, relationships, and emotional well-being.

Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection

The Unabridged Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection

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Books

On Family Dynamics

Bradshaw, John. Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child. Bantam Books; 1992.

Bradshaw, John. Bradshaw On: The Family. Health Communications, Inc.; 1992.

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To Help Couples

Clunis, D. Merilee & Green, G. Dorsey. Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships. Avalon Publishing Group; 2005.

Draschil, Sheryl. I Need You: The Ultimate Relationship Guide. Llumina Press; 2003.

Hendricks, Gaylord & Hendricks, Kathlyn. Conscious Loving. Bantam Books; 1991.

Hendrix, Harville. Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; 2001.

Middleton-Moz, Jane, Todd, Piaco, & Tener, Lisa. The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Anger: Dynamic Tools for Healthy Relationships. Health Communications, Inc.; 2005.

Pimental-Habib, Richard. The Power of a Partner: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Gay & Lesbian Relationships, Vol. 1. Alyson Publications; 2002.

Schnarch, David. Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love & Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships. Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; 1998.

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Self Help Resources  Relationships