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How to assess someone who refuses to talk

Sometimes you may be faced with people who refuse to talk. This could be for many reasons.They may be angry for having been brought to the clinic. They may be scared that talking to a health worker might mean they will be labelled a ‘mental case’. They may be suspicious of your motives. The general […]

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How to Assess Interpersonal Impacts

The Impact Message Inventory-Circumplex (IMI; Kiesler & Schmidt, 1993; Kiesler, Schmidt, & Wagner, 1997) assesses the interpersonal dispositions of a target person, not by asking the target person directly, but by assessing the covert responses or “impact messages”  (i.e., feelings, thoughts, and behavioral tendencies) that the target evokes in another person. The IMI asks the […]

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How to assess Interpersonal Values and Motives

Individuals’ feelings and behaviors in interpersonal situations depend in part on their interpersonal values. For example, being told what to do may be a relief to someone who values submission, but a humiliation to someone who values dominance. Consequently, many psychotherapies seek to change feelings and behavior by changing values; for example, cognitive and rational–emotive […]

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How to assess Interpersonal Problems

The most common self-report measure of problems associated with each octant of the interpersonal circle is the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP; Horowitz, Alden, & Pincus, 2000). The IIP consists of eight 8-item***(CH REP) scales that assess problematic dispositions associated with each octant of the interpersonal circumplex. Example items are shown in Table 15.1. Respondents […]

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