Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF)

Full name of scale

Global Assessment of Relational Functioning

Languages

English, Italian, Hebrew, Croatian, German, Finnish, Brazilian-Portuguese

Rater

Clinician-rated

Training

No training required

Utility

It can be used in clinical and research settings

It describes and quantifies the relational context within which patients live and problems occur.

Time to complete

No information found

Cost/license

No information found

Other information

The scale was purposely written to be understandable by all clinicians rather than only those familiar with the family system’s terminology.

Stein, M. B., Hilsenroth, M., Pinsker-Aspen, J. H., & Primavera, L. (2009). Validity of DSM-IV axis V global assessment of relational functioning scale: A multimethod assessment. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197(1), 50–55. Follow this link for the article.

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