Influencing Human Interaction--Eleven Years With IPR.
Year: 1975
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT: IPR (Interpersonal Process Recall) is proving to be an ef-fective method using videotape procedures to help counsellors in training become more sensitively aware of their own reactions and their effect on others. Most importantly, this process is an encouraging, growth-inducing one with potential for uses with other groups concerned with personal relationships. OVERVIEW The research which led to the development of the Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) method addressed itself to the fundamental question: Can we improve the ways in which people relate to each other? Can reliable methods be developed to teach people to live with each other without inflicting pain? Can we improve the mental health of our society? In 1962 my colleagues and I observed that stimulated recall (Bloom, 1954) by means of videotape and assisted by a person serving as an "inquirer " could help people understand themselves better, recognize their impact on others, realize the impact of others on them, and could allow people an unusual opportunity to try out new interpersonal modes of relating and responding. Our (David R. Krathwohl and William W. Farquhar were co-re-searchers with me during the first four years of IPR) first use of the medium was an attempt to develop a test of situation empathy or
Author: Norman Kagan
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1520672785