Hope, Forgiveness, and Positive Psychology in Couple Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ripley, Jennifer S.

Worthington Jr., Everett L.

Mental Health

Routledge

This practical book provides a guide for therapists who want to be more effective in couple therapy. With 125 boxed interventions explained within a patient-friendly framework emphasizing hope and a strategy for change, this resource can expand the flexibility of any therapist regardless of theoretical approach. Providing a theoretical framework that sees interventions as aimed at strengthening couples' emotional bonds, Hope, Forgiveness and Positive Psychology in Couple Therapy aims to deliver a practical strategy to build love, enhance work, and promote partners' faith in each other and in therapy. Interventions are discussed within several parts: <ul> <li>Conducting the initial intake, assessment, and feedback,</li> <li>Coaching conflict resolution and better communication</li> <li>Promoting intimate bonding</li> <li>Helping couples close the injustice gap in several ways, one of which is forgiving,</li> <li>Helping couples reconcile</li> <li>Building trust, and</li> <li>Facilitating termination.</li> </ul> These interventions fit with all major couple therapies that embrace a patient-responsive approach. Most of the published research on the hope-focused couple approach is on treating secular couples. However, two previous books aimed at therapists who must treat religiously committed couples have been widely used in couple-counselling courses, clinics, and clinicians' private collections primarily because the interventions have been imminently useful. In the present book, aimed at general secular practice, there are almost 100 new interventions to enrich clinical practice with couples.

To be unforgiving is harmful. The inability to come to terms with one’s anger or strife often can lead to stress disorders, mental health disorders, and relationship problems. Forgiveness is a personal decision. Forgiveness and Reconciliation focuses on individual experiences with forgiveness, aiming to create a theory of what forgiveness is and connect it to a clinical theory of how to promote forgiveness. Dr. Worthington creates an evidence-based approach that is applicable for individuals and relationships, and even for society. He also describes an evidence-based method of reconciliation - restoring trust in damaged relationships. Dr. Worthington hopes that this theory will inform scientific research and improve intervention strategies. Showing that forgiveness transforms personality, Worthington describes ways a clinician can promote (but not force) forgiveness of others and self. He provides research-based theory and applications and discusses the role of emotion and specific personality traits as related to forgiveness. Forgiveness and reconciliation might not be cures, but, as Worthington shows, they are tools for transforming both the self and the world.

Forgiveness and Reconciliation

This is a self-help book aimed at teaching people how to forgive and reconcile, founded on scientific research and clinical psychology, rather than on uncontrolled clinical practice, personal testimony, or theology. The author, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor, has spent years researching forgiveness and reconciliation, including how people respond physiologically to transgression, and how they calm down when they forgive. He has distilled his research on forgiveness into a five-step model called the Pyramid Model to REACH Forgiveness, the details of which make up the first part of the book; his four-step Bridge to Reconciliation makes up the second part. Steps to REACH Forgiveness and to Reconcile is framed very personally. It not only describes how forgiveness occurs in clinical practice and normal human relationships, it also describes the author’s personal story in forgiving the murder of his mother. It deals with self-forgiveness as well. Steps to REACH Forgiveness and to Reconcile can serve as a supplemental reading in courses like Positive Psychology, Personal Adjustment, Stress and Stress Management, or even Psychology 101. It would also be appropriate for courses in Social Relationships, Marriage and Family, Peace Studies, and any discipline dealing with communication and human relationships. As the author’s own story attests, people can learn to forgive and reconcile. Steps to REACH Forgiveness and to Reconcile presents an evidence-based intervention to help people do so more quickly and easily, if they are committed to trying.

Steps to REACH Forgiveness and to Reconcile

Psychology & Counseling

PEARSON/LEARNING SOLUTIONS

Forgiving can be one of the hardest things you'll ever do. Perhaps you sense deep down that it will be good for you and others to put the past in the past. But sometimes no matter what you do, you just can't seem to forgive and get on with life. You still feel hurt, bitter and angry. How can you break the cycle? Grounding their analysis and advice in the latest psychological research, the authors of To Forgive Is Human reveal how you can forgive and begin to repair broken relationships. Inside you'll discover 
<ul>
<li>why, when you forgive, it sometimes doesn't last</li>
<li>what you can learn about forgiveness from the latest brain research</li>
<li>why you can't forgive by forgetting</li>
<li>why simply deciding to forgive often doesn't do the trick</li>
<li>how memory research can help you actually change your memories</li>
<li>what it means to forgive yourself</li>
<li>how to balance justice and mercy</li>
<li>how children can learn to forgive</li>
<li>how you can gain empathy for those who have hurt you</li>
</ul> Life is messy. Relationships are messy. And forgiveness is messy. But with this complete book on forgiveness, you can learn how to move ahead positively and constructively in ways you may never have thought possible. To err may be human, but so is to forgive.

To Forgive Is Human: How to Put Your Past in the Past

Sandage, Steven J.

McCullough, Michael E.

Parenting & Relationships

Marriages are in trouble today. That is clear. Effective mothods of combating this trend are less evident. Counselors, pastors and social workers need more than mere theories or mere moralizing. They need a practical and comprehensive model for understanding couples and their problems. They need a throughly Christian perspective that is biblical, compassionate and human. Everett Worthington provides this in an integrated, biblically based theory of marriage and marriage therapy with analysis at three levels: the individual, the couple and the family. The model he has constructed, with techniques drawn from the major psychological schools, is standard enough to guide counselors in actual interventions and powerful enough to produce change. A thoroughgoing overview of the assessment process includes practical, workable guidelines for: creating realistic, mutually-agreeable goals for counselor and clients; estimating the number of sessions needed to reach those goals; and planning the actual assessment, intervention and termination sessions. Next Worthington offers specific techniques for enhancing cooperative change, intimacy, communication, conflict resolution and forgiveness within the marriage. But keeping couples from slipping back into old patterns is one of the counselor's most difficult tasks. So Worthington concludes with suggestions for solidifying change and effectively concluding the counseling relationship. Here is a text that will be a standard for counselors, pastors and mental health professionals in the years to come.

Marriage Counseling: A Christian Approach to Counseling Couples

Self-Help

Relationships

IVP Academic

Everett L. Worthington, Jr. offers a comprehensive manual for assisting couples over common rough spots and through serious problems in a manner that is compassionate, effective and brief. His hope-focused (rather than problem-focused) approach enables couples to see that change is possible and gives them a new outlook on the future. Combining this with a brief approach that addresses the realities of managed care and tight budgets, Worthington shows how to be strategic in each counseling situation by including teaching, training, exercises, forgiveness, modeling and motivation. At the heart of the book are dozens of interventions and exercises, including 
<ul>
<li>drawing on central values</li>
<li>promoting confession and forgiveness</li>
<li>strengthening communication</li>
<li>aiding conflict resolution</li>
<li>changing patterns of thinking</li>
<li>developing intimacy</li>
<li>cementing commitment</li>
</ul> Backed by years of experience and substantial research, hope-focused marriage counseling offers hope to counselors that they can provide help to troubled couples quickly, compassionately and effectively. This paperback edition includes a new introduction, summarizing the latest findings and developments in marital counseling and applying hope-focused marriage counseling to today's cultural and clinical realities.

Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling: A Guide to Brief Therapy

Following the successful Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling, Jennifer Ripley and Everett Worthington Jr. have written a new book that expands upon their previous theoretical approach while describing in detail new practical interventions for couple counseling and enrichment. Weaving together classic cases outlined in Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling and over 75 brand new practical interventions, Ripley and Worthington root their practical examples in an even deeper theoretical framework and research in attachment and intimate bonds. Written with the couple counselor in mind, this book occupies a rare niche that is accessible not only to therapists and counselors but also to pastors and married couples alike. Both licensed clinical psychologists and experienced counselors, the authors base this follow-up work on the pillars of their Hope-Focused Couples Approach. The assessment tools included help facilitate improved marriages in many settings, and the combination of theory and real-life case studies easily integrates into the practices of professional counselors and researchers as well as into the lives of couples. Instructor Resources for classroom use include activities, video demonstrations of the authors in couples therapy, audio lectures, testbank, chapter summaries and a sample syllabus.

Couple Therapy: A New Hope-Focused Approach (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

Religion and science have often been at odds. In particular, Christianity and psychology have not always gotten along. Some Christians are still suspicious of psychological findings. But researcher Everett Worthington argues that Christians can know people better--and even know God better--through psychological science. Worthington suggests that the relationship between psychological science and Christianity is less like a war or mere dialogue and more like an emerging marriage. In this relational model of psychology and Christianity, there may be marital spats at times but also great potential for an intimate, mutually fulfilling relationship. Worthington demonstrates how the tools of experimental psychology shed light on human nature and the nature of God. Because people bear the image of God, the findings of psychological science help us understand both people and God more clearly. Psychological science provides new perspectives on theology and can help us address theological controversies and hot topics. Worthington gives recent examples of illuminating psychological findings, examines the distortions of the image of God through the effects of sin and points to ways that psychology assists Christians in living more virtuously. Psychology can contribute to the Christian life, because all of us, psychologists and non-psychologists alike, are human and can benefit from better understanding our fellow humankind. Beyond integrating Christian and psychological truths, this book uncovers new relationships between science and religion, demonstrates psychology?s benefits to theology, and helps Christians live a redeemed life that is pleasing to God.

Coming to Peace with Psychology: What Christians Can Learn from Psychological Science

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

When hurtful things happen it can be extremely difficult to forgive those who have wronged us. Is it even possible? This booklet by forgiveness researcher Everett Worthington offers sound guidance on what forgiveness is, why it's important and how you can actually forgive others.

How Do I Forgive? 5-Pack (Ivp Booklets)

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Hope, Forgiveness, and Positive Psychology in Couple Therapy

Hope, Forgiveness, and Positive Psychology in Couple Therapy

Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Steps to REACH Forgiveness and to Reconcile

To Forgive Is Human: How to Put Your Past in the Past

Marriage Counseling: A Christian Approach to Counseling Couples

Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling: A Guide to Brief Therapy

Couple Therapy: A New Hope-Focused Approach (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

Coming to Peace with Psychology: What Christians Can Learn from Psychological Science

How Do I Forgive? 5-Pack (Ivp Booklets)