Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Everett L. Worthington, Jr., PhD, is Commonwealth Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University and Faculty Affiliate in the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He has published widely on forgiveness. He developed the REACH Forgiveness model (see www.EvWorthington-forgiveness.com for free resources), supported in over 35 published randomized controlled trials, including the largest worldwide intervention study.

"Worthington's REACH Forgiveness model, and its translation into a self-directed workbook, with powerful evidence now supported by a massive multi-country randomized trial, has the potential to bring healing and transformation throughout the world, empowering mental health, and enabling freedom from the past for suffering people."Tyler J. VanderWeele, professor of Epidemiology and director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University"Everett Worthington is the world’s leading expert on forgiveness and reconciliation. He has also done more than any other scholar to bring them about in the real world. This book teems with insight. I have anticipated this second edition for two decades. It was worth the wait."Michael McCullough, author of Beyond Revenge and The Kindness of Strangers"This much-needed update on the successful first edition is a tour de force of what is known about forgiveness and reconciliation, providing a much more complete account of the latter. The culmination of forty years of a broad-ranging and highly productive career, it is essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners across a broad range of disciplines."Frank D. Fincham, eminent scholar, Florida State University"This book will shape forgiveness research and practice for at least the next 20 years. The stress-and-coping theory of forgiveness is a paradigm for modern forgiveness work and its extension to reconciliation is exactly what the field needs. Just as important is a masterful and comprehensive review of forgiveness interventions, the how-tos of forgiveness."Loren Toussaint, PhD, Luther College

• Part I: The Status of Forgiveness Studies 1. Stress-and-Coping Theory of Forgiveness 2. Other Theories and Models of Forgiveness 3. Research o the Stress-and-Coping Theory of Forgiveness 4. Current Status of the Psychology of Forgiveness Part II: Intervening to Promote Forgiveness 5. A General Approach to Psychotherapy 6. Promoting Forgiveness in Psychotherapy and Couple Therapy 7. Forgiveness in Psychoeducation 8. Active Ingredients in Forgiveness Treatments and in Public Mental Health 9. Self-Forgiveness Part III: Reconciliation 10. Stress-and-Coping Theory of Reconciliation 11. Promoting Reconciliation in Couples 12. Promoting Reconciliation in Organizations 13. Promoting Reconciliation in Society