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