Description
Book SynopsisThis book explains when forgiveness and spiritual transformation might be appropriate clinical goals, as well as how to facilitate these processes in psychotherapy. The model is applied to short-term therapy, long-term therapy, couple and family therapy, and group therapy.
Trade Review“This is a useful read for time-strapped practitioners who want to understand this approach and improve their clinical efficacy by integrating the religious and psycho-spiritual approach into their work, as I believe that this is a key aspect of therapy that is missing.” —New England Psychologist
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Theory and Evidence
- How Forgiveness Helps People Cope With Transgressions
- How Spiritual Transformation Occurs
- How Attachment Affects Spirituality and Why Spiritual Transformation May Be Needed to Forgive
- Evidence Supporting the Models
II. Promoting Forgiveness
- Helping People Forgive
- Forgiveness in Brief Psychotherapy
- Case Study of Forgiveness in Brief Psychotherapy
- Forgiveness in Long-Term Psychotherapy
- Case Study of Forgiveness in Long-Term Psychotherapy
- Forgiveness in Couples and Family Therapy
- Forgiveness in Group Interventions
Afterword
Appendix: Measures to Assess Aspects of the Victim–Sacred and (Victim's Perception of) the Offender–Sacred Relationship
References
Index
About the Authors
