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.