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Bell Relationship Inventory for Adolescents (BRIA)
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With adolescents, the presenting problem may be academic, emotional, or
behavioral,
but the solution is often interpersonal. If you look at the teenager's
interpersonal world,
you'll have a better chance of understanding his or her
school
performance, emotional
issues, and behavior.
Evaluate adolescents in context
The Bell Relationship Inventory for Adolescents (BRIA) offers a quick
and convenient way to evaluate psychological disturbance and
interpersonal relationship problems in preteens
and teens. It gives you a glimpse into
the interpersonal world of the
adolescent, providing a context in which to
view data obtained from
achievement, neuropsychological, and personality
tests.
Assess attachment, social functioning, and emotional bonds.
Fifty items,
covering five scales, measure the adolescent's ability to
maintain a stable
sense of identity and appropriate emotional bonds with others:
Alienation
Lack of trust, difficulty with intimacy, feelings of alienation
Insecure Attachment
Sensitivity to rejection, fears of separation and abandonment
Egocentricity
Lack of empathy, self-protectiveness, tendency to control and exploit
Social Incompetence
Social discomfort, shyness, difficulty making friends
Positive Attachment
Satisfaction with current relationships with peers and parents
Test in just 10 to 15 minutes
Completed in just 10 to 15 minutes, the BRIA provides standard scores
and percentiles
for each scale. Norms are based on a sample of 815 children and
teens
(11 to 17 years
of age), 705 from public schools and 110 from clinics
and residential
treatment centers.
The sample includes roughly equal numbers
of boys and girls from various
ethnic
backgrounds.
Identify teens having trouble with interpersonal connections due to
trauma,
NLD, or PDD.
In schools or clinics, the BRIA can be used to identify preteens
and
teens who are likely to
have difficulty with interpersonal relationships.
It may be especially
helpful in assessing youngsters who have experienced trauma, as well as
those with nonverbal learning disability, Asperger's Syndrome, or other
conditions in which interpersonal connections are problematic. By
revealing deficits in object relations, the BRIA can also help
distinguish between conduct disorder, borderline personality disorder,
mood disorders, and psychosis. In addition, the Positive Attachment
scale can inform treatment planning by uncovering feelings of support
that might moderate difficulties indicated by pathological scores on the
other scales.
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