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Relationship Inventory : A Complete Resource and Guide.
Title:
Relationship Inventory : A Complete Resource and Guide.
Author:
Barrett-Lennard, Godfrey T.
ISBN:
9781118789131
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (199 pages)
Contents:
The Relationship Inventory: A Complete Resource and Guide -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Companion Website -- Part 1 The Relationship Inventory: Beginning, Fruition, Future -- Chapter 1 How Change Happens: The Guidance and Refinement of Theory -- Chapter 2 The Classic Investigation of Carl Rogers' Core Theory -- Definitions of the "therapeutic" variables -- Instruments and procedure -- Experimental hypotheses -- Results -- Implications and further research -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 A Major Revision: Crafting the 64-item RI and Emergent Adaptations -- Purposes of the revision -- Item analysis and other features -- The spread of application with varied adaptations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Mature and Travelling: The RI "System" in Focus -- The theoretical structure of the BLRI reviewed -- Phases in dialogue exchange linking to the main inventory forms -- Gathering, scoring, and using RI data: Practice and rationale -- Reliability and validity: Issues and evidence -- New and underused applications of the BLRI -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The BLRI Story Extended: Later Work and Looking Ahead -- Reflections on theory and the interrelation of conditions -- Later studies and analyses -- Where to next? Underexplored and adventurous regions -- The spectrum of BL relationship inventories -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Training Applications: Exercises in Facilitation -- Use of the whole BLRI early in counsellor training -- Learning from interviews in triads with BLRI-derived participant ratings -- Conclusion -- Part 2 The Journeying Self in Personal and Group Relations -- Chapter 7 The Contextual Selves Inventory: For the Study of Self in its Diversity -- Origins and manifestations of self-diversity -- Constructive change in relations within the plural self -- Studying the self in context - new focus and method.

The CSI poised for fresh inquiry -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Tracking Self and Relational Process in Experiential Groups -- End-of-meeting participant process appraisals -- Illustrative results from use of the in-group questionnaires -- Conclusion -- Part 3 Reframing: Envisioning the Path Ahead -- Chapter 9 Looking Ahead: Fresh Horizons in Relationship Study -- Invitations to connected further study of relationship -- Towards the study of relations between very large systems -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 The Relationship Inventory Forms and Scoring Keys -- Appendix 1 Annotated Contents -- Forms for Teacher-Student and Young Child Relationships -- The Life Relationships Form -- Forms For Relationships with and Between Groups and with Organizations -- The OS and MO Adaptations Focused on Empathic Understanding -- Exploratory Adaptation for Self-With-Self Relations -- Guideline Suggestions to Translators of the Blrelationship Inventory -- Translations and the Translators -- Appendix 2 Contextual Selves Inventory and Triad and Group Rating Forms -- Annotated Contents -- Contextual Selves Inventory - Directions Section (Developed by Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard, PhD) -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
Abstract:
Written by a pioneer in person-centered therapy, this is the only resource to provide full access to the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (BLRI) - along with information on the instrument's history and development and supporting materials for counseling practitioners, researchers, and students. Provides a complete instrument for  measuring empathy in relationships, a critical component for success across a wide range of therapeutic interventions Charts the development and refinement of the BLRI over more than 50 years, with particular attention to the influence of Carl Rogers' theories, and outlines the future potential of the instrument Contains all the materials necessary for critical understanding and  application of the BRLI, including the full range of forms and adaptations, and guidelines for successful implementation Also presents the author's Contextual Selves Inventory (CSI), which permits direct study of the self as distinctively experienced in different relationship contexts.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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