The Relationship Inventory: A Complete Resource and Guide

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“This is a book that provides all you need to know about measuring perceptions in a relationship. Barrett-Lennard has given us a tour de force of the history and development of The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory, which has been internationally recognized for its broad empirical support, strong theoretical development, and practical applications. This work launches the study of the relationship conditions into new territory and provides a significant contribution to the study of human relationships.”―Leslie S. Greenberg, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University, Canada

“Godfrey Barrett-Lennard's Relationship Inventory has had remarkable impact and staying power. This book explains why: a strong conceptual basis, careful cycles of item selection and crafting, alternating with validation studies, and a continuing interest in conceptual elaboration and empirical diversification. This book traces the Inventory's continuing development from its grounding in Carl Rogers's conceptualization of the therapeutic relationship, to application in a variety of clinical and educational settings.”―William B. Stiles, Miami University and Appalachian State University

“This is an indispensable book for all those interested in the therapeutic relationship. It provides detailed information on the use of the BLRI, and training exercises based on using it. Furthermore it covers the author’s exciting new work on the ‘contextual self’ – the idea that our selves have multiple aspects – an idea gaining momentum in psychology at the present time. It is highly recommended for psychotherapy researchers, students of psychotherapy, and researchers in other fields that involve the relationship.”―Arthur C. Bohart, PhD, Professor Emeritus, California State University Dominguez Hills

“The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory family of assessments occupies a unique space from the past to the future and from the diversity within each of us to the interconnections between all of us. This book provides full access to more than a dozen distinct instruments to measure relationship in nearly any context. It is a remarkable resource and a testimony to the enduring process to understand and improve life through both relationships and science. We all can be grateful for it as a contribution.”―Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White, Psy.D., Missouri State University

This is a book that provides all you need to know about measuring perceptions in a relationship. Barrett-Lennard has given us a tour de force of the history and development of The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory which has been internationally recognized for its broad empirical support, strong theoretical development, and practical applications. This work launches the study of the relationship conditions into new territory and provides a significant contribution to the study of human relationships―Leslie S. Greenberg, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University, Canada

Godfrey Barrett-Lennard's Relationship Inventory has had remarkable impact and staying power. This book explains why: a strong conceptual basis, careful cycles of item selection and crafting, alternating with validation studies, and a continuing interest in conceptual elaboration and empirical diversification. This book traces the Inventory's continuing development from its grounding in Carl Rogers's conceptualization of the therapeutic relationship, through a series of revision and validation studies, to application in a variety of clinical and educational settings. There is much history here, but also reviews of current work, copies of Inventory forms adapted for a variety of specific research and clinical situations, and proposals for future research directions.―William B. Stiles, Miami University and Appalachian State University

This is an indispensable book for all those interested in the therapeutic relationship. Furthermore it covers the author’s exciting new work on the idea of the “contextual self” – the idea that our selves have multiple aspects – an idea gaining momentum in psychology at the present time. Overall it traces the history of the development and use of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory, surely one of the two or three most widely used instruments for measuring facilitative therapeutic relationship conditions. It provides detailed information on the use of the BLRI, and training exercises based on using it. It also covers its use in other fields such as education, with families, groups and organizations, and medical practice. Finally the book concludes with Barrett-Lennard’s exciting new work on measuring the concept of the ‘contextual self’ – the idea that our selves have multiple aspects – an idea gaining momentum in psychology at the present time.. Barrett-Lennard provides a useful measure. Overall, a book highly recommended for psychotherapy researchers, students of psychotherapy, and researchers in other fields that involve the relationship.―Arthur C. Bohart, PhD, Professor Emeritus, California State University Dominguez Hills

The Relationship Inventory brings to life the origins of the research on psychotherapy as we know it today, rooted in one of the most enduring common factors of the psychotherapy literature: Therapeutic relationships can facilitate personal growth. It also points to the future of our understanding of who we are as persons in all of life’s contexts, increasingly diverse yet embedded in a vast array of (inter-) relationships. The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory family of assessments occupies a unique space from the past to the future and from the diversity within each of us to the interconnections between all of us. The Relationship Inventory provides full access to more than a dozen distinct instruments to measure relationship in nearly any context from the most intimate through the professional to the societal. This book truly is a remarkable resource and a testimony to the enduring process to understand and improve life through both relationships and science. We all can be grateful for it as a contribution.―Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White, Psy.D., Missouri State University