Abstract
the Relationship Inventory [RI] is a questionnaire research instrument / it also represents an approach to the study of interpersonal relationships generally, and of therapeutic or helping relationships in particular a current view of the theoretical structure of the RI interaction phases in the client-therapist dyad, corresponding to the principal RI forms gathering, scoring, and analysing RI data: practice and rationale / administering the inventory / the issue of timing in gathering RI data / scoring / norms for the RI / reliability and validity new and underused applications of the RI / life relationship environment: helping relationship baseline / family relationships and change / classroom and child-adult relationships / predicting the other's view: metaperception applications