Self‐forgiveness: the good, the bad, and the ugly

MJA Wohl, KJ McLaughlin - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, self‐forgiveness has been framed as a process that helps facilitate
psychological as well as physiological well‐being following wrongdoing. In the present …

Possibilities within acceptance and commitment therapy for approaching moral injury

JA Nieuwsma, RD Walser… - Current Psychiatry …, 2015‏ - ingentaconnect.com
Moral injury and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) are both topics that have only
quite recently been introduced into the mental health literature. Although inquiries into these …

Two pathways to self‐forgiveness: A hedonic path via self‐compassion and a eudaimonic path via the reaffirmation of violated values

L Woodyatt, M Wenzel, M Ferber - British Journal of Social …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Self‐forgiveness is often measured as a hedonic end‐state, as the presence of positive
affect and the absence of negative affect towards the self following a wrongdoing. However …

A therapeutic model of self‐forgiveness with intervention strategies for counselors

MA Cornish, NG Wade - Journal of Counseling & Development, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Self‐forgiveness is associated with psychological and relational well‐being and may be a
worthwhile treatment goal for clients who have hurt others. The authors utilized theoretical …

No genuine self‐forgiveness without accepting responsibility: Value reaffirmation as a key to maintaining positive self‐regard

M Wenzel, L Woodyatt, K Hedrick - European journal of social …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Measures of self‐forgiveness that merely focus on the outcome of positive self‐regard risk
neglecting the process through which offenders restore it. They may thus tap pseudo self …

A needs-based perspective on self-forgiveness: Addressing threat to moral identity as a means of encouraging interpersonal and intrapersonal restoration

L Woodyatt, M Wenzel - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Committing an offense creates psychological need within a victim and offender that can act
as barriers to reconciliation. This paper examines the process of an offender addressing …

Efficacy of a self-forgiveness workbook: a randomized controlled trial with interpersonal offenders.

BJ Griffin, EL Worthington Jr, CR Lavelock… - Journal of Counseling …, 2015‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The present study tested the efficacy of a 6-hr self-directed workbook intervention designed
to increase self-forgiveness and reduce self-condemnation among perpetrators of …

Parenting a child with learning disabilities: Mothers' self-forgiveness, well-being, and parental behaviors

G Finardi, FG Paleari, FD Fincham - Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2022‏ - Springer
Parenting a child with learning disabilities (LDs) can not only be a fulfilling experience, but
also a challenging one which can increase parenting stress as well as impair parenting self …

The role of (self-) forgiveness in restorative justice: Linking restorative justice to desistance

M Suzuki, T Jenkins - European Journal of Criminology, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The role of forgiveness in restorative justice (RJ) remains peripheral because interpersonal
forgiveness has been considered a 'gift'that should not be forced on victims in RJ. In this …

Dynamics of moral repair: Forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and the restoration of value consensus as interdependent processes

M Wenzel, L Woodyatt, TG Okimoto… - Personality and …, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Most psychological research has investigated victims' forgiveness and offenders' self-
forgiveness separately, ignoring interactive and dynamic processes between them. We …