The Relationship Inventory: A Complete Resource and Guide - Softcover

Barrett-Lennard, Godfrey T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118788826 ISBN 13: 9781118788820

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard is Adjunct Professor in the School of Health Professions and the School of Psychology & Exercise Science at Murdoch University, Australia. He is Honorary Doctor of Murdoch University and Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Australian Psychological Society. He studied with Carl Rogers at the University of Chicago and his research has focused on relationship in therapy and life systems. He is the author of many books, chapters, articles, and research questionnaire instruments. His most recent publications include The Relationship Paradigm: Human Being Beyond Individualism (2013), Relationship at the Centre: Healing in a Troubled World (Wiley, 2005), Steps on a Mindful Journey: Person-centred Expressions(2003), and Carl Rogers’ Helping System: Journey and Substance (1998). He has given addresses and workshops around the world, and in 2011 he was presented with the Carl Rogers Award of APA Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology).

From the Back Cover

The Relationship Inventory is the only resource to provide full access to the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (BLRI) for practitioners, researchers, and students. The BLRI provides an evidence-based method for measuring empathy and related qualities in relationships. Helper empathy, especially, is a critical component in enabling change across a wide range of psychotherapies. Written by the instrument’s creator and a pioneer in person-centred therapy, this book charts the history, development, varied research applications and refinement of the BLRI over more than half a century, and provides the complete contemporary instrument in its primary and special-purpose forms. Attention is given to the influence of Carl Rogers’ theories on therapeutic helping generally and person-centred therapy in particular. As well as providing everything required for informed application of the BLRI, the book also includes the related Contextual Selves Inventory. Filled with foundation and up-to-date material, as well as a final chapter that sketches future potential for the BLRI and beyond, this is a unique and essential resource for anyone pursuing the systematic humanistic study of relationships.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118788826
• ISBN 13: 9781118788820
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196