J Psychother Pract Res 9:200, October 2000
© 2000 American Psychiatric Association
An Introduction to Central Relationship Pattern Measures
The Central Relationship Questionnaire
Lester Luborsky, Ph.D.
Key Words: Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method • Rating Instruments
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Introduction
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The Central Relationship Questionnaire (CRQ) is the latest in the continued expansion of the family of measures stimulated by the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme method (CCRT). The CCRT began with the first report by Luborsky1 of a novel observer- rated measure based on narratives that are told by the subject about the pattern of his or her relationships with other people. Such observer-rated CCRTs are based on two alternative sources of narratives: 1) narratives told during psychotherapy and 2) narratives told on request during the Relationship Anecdotes Paradigms interview.
The self-rated CRQ2 is a third alternative: a questionnaire completed by the subject. It takes much less time than the observer- rated CCRT, which is based on a clinician's ratings. The CRQ and the CCRT appear to correlate with each other, but more research is needed on that topic.
All of these central relationship pattern instruments measure the pattern of a person's relationships with other people. They are tremendously useful measures that have a wide range of correlations with other measures of personality. They might be used by the practitioner to quickly identify the patient's central relationship pattern, and also the patient's degree of awareness of the existence of a central relationship pattern. Many of these uses are summarized in the most recent book on the CCRT.3
The excellent psychometric properties of this CRQ measure and its applications are illustrated in the paper that follows by Weinryb and colleagues—for example, comparison of interpersonal patterns for each gender, comparison of inpatients and outpatients, comparison of Swedish and English forms of the CRQ, and the correspondence of the results of the CRQ with the IIP, which is a measure of problems mostly in interpersonal relationships.
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Luborsky L: Measuring a pervasive psychic structure in psychotherapy: the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme, in Communicative Structures and Psychic Structures, edited by Freedman N, Grand S. New York, Plenum, 1977, pp 367–395
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Barber JP, Foltz C, Weinryb RM: The Central Relationship Questionnaire: initial report. Journal of Counseling Psychology 1998; 45:131–142
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Luborsky L, Crits-Christoph P: Understanding Transference: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method, 2nd edition. Washington, DC, American Psychological Association, 1998
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