This book updates and expands on Relational Competence Theory developed originally by Dr. Luciano LAbate since 1976. Over the years, this theory has received various updates and expansions, especially after being produced according to a hierarchical flowchart, as common in most complex human organisations. The present book concentrates particularly on a condition called Alexithymia, similar but not the same as the Asperger Syndrome, the inability to experience feelings and to express them as emotions. Most chapters in this book expand on the first model of RCT about how feelings are experienced and expressed using an expanded revision of the Relational Answers Questionnaire. Self-presentation was evaluated with a new scale, and Selfhood was expanded with a widely revised and expanded Self-Other Profile Chart.
Preface; In Support of Theory in Applied Research & Practice; A Hierarchical Framework for Relational Competence Theory; Updating the Alexitymia Construct & its Measurement; Understanding Alexithymia through an Information Processing Model; Relational Competence & Alexithymia:: How are they Related?; Comparing Two Versions of the Relational Answers Questionnaire; Self-Presentation Strategies:: A New Version of the Self-Presentation Scale; The Continuum of Likeness Scales:: A Proposal for Evaluating Self-identity Differentiation; Updating the RC-Ecomap:: A Multi-model, Theory-derived Instrument; Advances in RC-Ecomap Research:: Evaluating its Validity & Reliability; A New Version of the Self-Other-Profile-Chart ; Unexpressed & Expressed Hurts:: Two Different Trajectories for Similar Feelings; Alexithymia Dimensions in Aging; Alexithymia Dimensions & Perceived Emotional Parenting Styles; Alexithymia Dimensions in Addiction; Alexithymia Dimensions as Parenting Challenges; Implications of Research on Alexithymia for Relational Competence Theory; Index.
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