Home » Professional Resources

Relationships Resources

Find and share professional documents—from curriculum to articles to presentations. Our Professional Resource Library is a great way for NCFR members and active Certified Family Life Educators to pool knowledge on a wide variety of family topics. Please refer to Terms of Use for guidelines on submitting to the NCFR website.
 

Contribute to the Library+

Showing 11 - 20 of 191
for Members ONLY

Couple Relationships in Marital and Work Contexts - Audio Recording

Panelists discuss Latent Profiles of Time Adequacy for Work, Parenting, and Partner Roles ; Sense of Entitlement in Couple Relationships ; Couple Intimacy and Relationship Satisfaction in Long-term Marriages: A Longitudinal Study ; Use of Computer Mediated Communication in Romantic Relationships and Adult Attachment ; Romantic Relationships Mediated by Technology

for Members ONLY

Couple/Partner Interactions - Audio Recording

Panelists discuss Conflict Management Across Eight Situations: Actor-partner Interdependence Model ; Sexual Self-disclosure and Communication Among Swinger Couples ; The Relational Effects of Same-sex Marriage in Iowa ; Emotional Congruence Within Couple Interaction: The Role of Attachment Avoidance

Marcus Tanner
for Members ONLY

The back side of the storm: Clergy families in distress

by Marcus N. Tanner, Ph.D., president and CEO, HealingChoice, www.healingchoice.org

It was an unusually calm day for an Easter Sunday morning in Texas. I was a pastor and for the first time in my ministry, I left my pregnant wife and daughter at home before heading to church that morning. Although our family saw the approaching clouds, somehow we thought we would be protected. It was on that day that I was forced to resign.

Rob Palkovitz
for Members ONLY

Fathers and spirituality: Faithfully fathering for life

by Rob Palkovitz, Ph.D., professor, Human Development and Family Studies

Through meetings and individual discussions with various teens, it became clear that everyday interactions with family members had significant influence in informing teens’ emerging faith and in influencing the centrality of their spirituality in comparison to other emerging developments.

Jacquelyn Campbell
from 2012 NCFR Conference Recordings

Jacquelyn Campbell speaks about domestic violence

Plenary speaker Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD speaks about domestic violence, the intergenerational transmission of family violence and the costs thereof for families and society.

Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm (1963)
from Zippy Weekly Videos

Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm (1963)

In another vintage short film, George and Betty get to spend the summer with their cousins on Uncle Jim’s farm. Doing chores, calling hogs, milking cows — it’s all here, straight from 1963.  

"Caregiving is Just What Families Do": Challenges of Aging Families and Health
for Members ONLY

"Caregiving is Just What Families Do": Challenges of Aging Families and Health - Video Recording

Sara Honn Qualls, Ph.D., Kraemer Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is a practicing clinical psychologist who helped establish the CU Aging Center in Colorado Springs which provides mental health services for older adults.

Community Capacity Building and Health in the US Military
for Members ONLY

Community Capacity Building and Health in the US Military - Video Recording

Jay A. Mancini, A. Laura Arnold, James A. Martin, Gary L. Bowen, Danielle Swick, Anne F. Farrell, Irene Nathan Zipper, Denise Lindley

from RAND report

Home Front: Post-Deployment Mental Health and Divorces

Find the free PDF report here:

Child Welfare Information Gateway
from Selecting and working with a therapist skilled in adoption

Selecting and working with a therapist skilled in adoption

Find this fact sheet here: