The Relationship Inventory – A Complete Resource and Guide

Preface vii
<p>About the Companion Website ix</p>
<p>Part 1 The Relationship Inventory: Beginning, Fruition, Future 1</p>
<p>1 How Change Happens: The Guidance and Refinement of Theory 3</p>
<p>2 The Classic Investigation of Carl Rogers Core Theory 8</p>
<p>Definitions of the therapeutic variables 10</p>
<p>Instruments and procedure 12</p>
<p>Experimental hypotheses 16</p>
<p>Results 17</p>
<p>Implications and further research 22</p>
<p>Conclusion 24</p>
<p>3 A Major Revision: Crafting the 64–item RI and Emergent Adaptations 26</p>
<p>Purposes of the revision 27</p>
<p>Item analysis and other features 27</p>
<p>The spread of application with varied adaptations 31</p>
<p>Conclusion 34</p>
<p>4 Mature and Travelling: The RI System in Focus 35</p>
<p>The theoretical structure of the BLRI reviewed 35</p>
<p>Phases in dialogue exchange linking to the main inventory forms 38</p>
<p>Gathering, scoring, and using RI data: Practice and rationale 39</p>
<p>Reliability and validity: Issues and evidence 43</p>
<p>New and underused applications of the BLRI 46</p>
<p>Conclusion 48</p>
<p>5 The BLRI Story Extended: Later Work and Looking Ahead 49</p>
<p>Reflections on theory and the interrelation of conditions 50</p>
<p>Later studies and analyses 52</p>
<p>Where to next? Underexplored and adventurous regions 60</p>
<p>The spectrum of BL relationship inventories 61</p>
<p>Conclusion 63</p>
<p>6 Training Applications: Exercises in Facilitation 64</p>
<p>Use of the whole BLRI early in counsellor training 64</p>
<p>Learning from interviews in triads with BLRI–derived participant ratings 65</p>
<p>Conclusion 71</p>
<p>Part 2 The Journeying Self in Personal and Group Relations 73</p>
<p>7 The Contextual Selves Inventory: For the Study of Self in its Diversity 75</p>
<p>Origins and manifestations of self–diversity 76</p>
<p>Constructive change in relations within the plural self 78</p>
<p>Studying the self in context new focus and method 78</p>
<p>The CSI poised for fresh inquiry 83</p>
<p>Conclusion 83</p>
<p>8 Tracking Self and Relational Process in Experiential Groups 85</p>
<p>End–of–meeting participant process appraisals 86</p>
<p>Illustrative results from use of the in–group questionnaires 87</p>
<p>Conclusion 89</p>
<p>Part 3 Reframing: Envisioning the Path Ahead 91</p>
<p>9 Looking Ahead: Fresh Horizons in Relationship Study 93</p>
<p>Invitations to connected further study of relationship 93</p>
<p>Towards the study of relations between very large systems 96</p>
<p>Conclusion 98</p>
<p>Appendix 1: The Relationship Inventory Forms and Scoring Keys 99</p>
<p>Appendix 2: Contextual Selves Inventory and Triad and Group Rating Forms 160</p>
<p>References 175</p>
<p>Index 184</p>