Practicing Forgiveness
A Path Toward Healing
Published on 5. January 2021
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-19-093720-1 (ISBN)
Description
Our relationships enrich our lives. Strong bonds with family, friends, and colleagues make our lives full and vibrant, but they can also be a source of distress or even trauma. Few relationships are perfect, and we often find ourselves let down by even the people we count on most; learning to navigate the challenges is vital to protecting our health and wellbeing.
In this book the author presents a model for forgiveness that addresses how we either repair relationships when someone has harmed us, or how we move forward when relationships are beyond repair. Repairing a relationship is not always practical. The model presented in this book can be helpful to promote self-healing and to either re-establish relationships with others or move forward when reconciliation is harmful or not possible.
Practicing Forgiveness draws on the perspectives of counseling professionals from across the country to explore contextual and cultural aspects of forgiveness with stories, humor, clinical examples, research, and empirical findings, while also considering the influence of environment and religion. The forgiveness process is a universal one, and this book serves as a resource to anyone wishing to gain insight into their own personal journey.
In this book the author presents a model for forgiveness that addresses how we either repair relationships when someone has harmed us, or how we move forward when relationships are beyond repair. Repairing a relationship is not always practical. The model presented in this book can be helpful to promote self-healing and to either re-establish relationships with others or move forward when reconciliation is harmful or not possible.
Practicing Forgiveness draws on the perspectives of counseling professionals from across the country to explore contextual and cultural aspects of forgiveness with stories, humor, clinical examples, research, and empirical findings, while also considering the influence of environment and religion. The forgiveness process is a universal one, and this book serves as a resource to anyone wishing to gain insight into their own personal journey.
Reviews / Votes
Using real-life examples from clinical experiences, news stories, and personal stories, author Richard Balkin presents this complex topic in a way that is easy to understand and gets readers to think and reflect on their own experiences of forgiveness. * Renee Borghesi, The New Social Worker * Richard Balkin's expertise in Practicing Forgiveness clears the sea of ambiguity for counselors to understand the concepts, knowledge base, and true depth of forgiveness. The writings found in this book are a breath of fresh air that will expose readers to empirical data, research, personal stories, and the value and worth of understanding cultural and religious forgiveness. * LaVelle Hendricks, EdD, Professor of Counseling and Director of College Student Affairs, Texas A&M University-Commerce * Beautifully written, Rick Balkin's Practicing Forgiveness provides a brilliant conceptualization of the dynamic and often complex path toward forgiveness, and the role that faith, community, and family can play in navigating the aftermaths of loss, injury, and trauma. Drawing from his wealth of experiences as a counselor, researcher, and educator, Dr. Balkin offers a deeply moving accounting of the injuries and injustices we experience as relational beings and proposes empathic and thought-provoking pathways toward reconciling and healing our hurts. * Thelma Duffey, PhD, Professor and Chair, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Past President, Fellow, and Treasurer, American Counseling Association *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-093720-1 (9780190937201)
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11/2020
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Person
Richard S. Balkin, PhD, LPC, NCC, is a Professor and Doctoral Program Coordinator in the Department of Leadership and Counselor Education at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Balkin is a Fellow of the American Counseling Association; Past Editor for the Journal of Counseling & Development, the flagship journal for the American Counseling Association; and Past President for the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling. Dr. Balkin began practice as a professional counselor in 1993 and has worked in academe since 2003. Dr. Balkin's publications include textbooks on assessment in counseling, research, and the counseling relationship; published tests and technical manuals; peer-reviewed manuscripts; book chapters; and conference proceedings. His counseling experience with at-risk youth was formative to his research agenda, which includes understanding the role of counseling and relevant goals for adolescents in crisis and counseling outcomes. He has published in the area of religious
diversity and forgiveness and developed a model and measure for counseling clients through issues of forgiveness and conflict.
diversity and forgiveness and developed a model and measure for counseling clients through issues of forgiveness and conflict.
Content
Chapter 1. Harmful Messages and Pressures to Forgive
Chapter 2. Forgiveness and Culture: Beliefs and Conflicts
Chapter 3. The Forgiveness Reconciliation Model: An Overview
Chapter 4. Collaborative Exploration
Chapter 5. The Role of Reconciliation
Chapter 6. Change and Remorse
Chapter 7. Choosing the Outcome
Chapter 8. The Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory
Chapter 9. Does This Work? Appendices
A. The Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory B. Technical Information on the Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory References
Chapter 2. Forgiveness and Culture: Beliefs and Conflicts
Chapter 3. The Forgiveness Reconciliation Model: An Overview
Chapter 4. Collaborative Exploration
Chapter 5. The Role of Reconciliation
Chapter 6. Change and Remorse
Chapter 7. Choosing the Outcome
Chapter 8. The Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory
Chapter 9. Does This Work? Appendices
A. The Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory B. Technical Information on the Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory References