The Relationship Inventory: A Complete Resource and Guide

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.

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).