Bernhard Schieber

Active-Empathic Listening Scale (AELS)

Knowledge

The AELS profiles sensing, processing, and responding through an eleven-item interpersonal form. Self, partner, and observer perspectives answer different questions. Version-specific scoring and contextual comparison can locate listening discrepancies without independently certifying accurate comprehension, stable empathy, or improved outcomes, while cultural meaning and reproduction rights require specific attention.

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Tool

In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.

Editorial orientation · Category

Measurement & Assessment Instruments

Produces measures, scores, profiles or assessments through defined items, observations or measurement rules. The entry identifies what is measured and the conditions governing interpretation.

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