Relational Competence Theory Research and Mental Health Applications
Relational competence—the set of traits that allow people to interact with each other effectively—enjoys a long history of being recorded, studied, and analyzed. Accordingly, Relational Competence Theory (RCT) complements theories that treat individuals’
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Luciano L’Abate Mario Cusinato Eleonora Maino Walter Colesso Claudia Scilletta ●
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Relational Competence Theory Research and Mental Health Applications
Luciano L’Abate Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30345-3917 USA [email protected]
Mario Cusinato University of Padua Padua 35010 Italy [email protected]
Eleonora Maino Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea Bosisio Parini 23842 Italy [email protected]
Walter Colesso University of Padua Padua 35010 Italy [email protected]
Claudia Scilletta Milano 20021 Italy [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-5664-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-5665-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5665-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010928633 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This volume is dedicated to Bess L. L’Abate for all her direct and indirect support that made this work possible throughout the years since its inception in 1988 during the first visit to Padua by the first author and to Sharon Panulla, Executive Editor at Springer Science+Business Media, for her continuous, decade-long support of the first author of this volume and her belief in the validity of relational competence theory. This volume would not have been published without her support.
Preface
The purpose of this book is to elaborate and update with recent and relevant research a contextual and developmental relational competence theory (RCT) in intimate/nonintimate relationships (L’Abate, 1976, 1994a, 1994b, 1997a, 1997b, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2009a, in press, 2009c; L’Abate & Cusinato, 2007; L’Abate & De Giacomo, 2003). RCT focuses on how effectively we deal with each other, with intimates and nonintimates in close/distant, committed/uncommitted, dependent/interdependent/independent, and short/prolonged relationships. Relational means bidirectional rather unidirectional interactions with intimates and nonintimates in a continuous interdependent and reciprocal exchange of resources available to us. Effectiveness is evaluated by how we feel, how we think, how we act, how we are aware, and how we evaluate proximal and distant subjective contexts as perceived by us. Theory means a hierarchical framewor
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