Five Steps to Forgiveness: The Art and Science of Forgiving - Hardcover

Worthington, Everett L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609609181 ISBN 13: 9780609609187

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2001

Synopsis

A step-by-step program for applying forgiveness to everyday life uses a clinically tested approach to initiate the reconciliation process. 17,500 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

EVERETT WORTHINGTON, PH.D., is professor and chair of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is executive director of A Campaign for Forgiveness Research, which, in collaboration with the John Templeton Foundation, has raised funding for more than 35 research projects studying forgiveness. He has published 16 books and 125 scientific articles and chapters, and has edited several journals. He is a father of four and an active leader in secular and Christian counseling fields. An experienced lecturer and promoter, he has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, and other national shows. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

From the Inside Flap:

it in your heart to forgive?

You’ve been wronged, but you want to do the right thing. You want to be free of the burden of a bitter grudge that weighs you down during the day and keeps you up at night. You’re wasting time and energy ruminating, railing, perhaps even plotting revenge. You’re sick and tired of being a victim, but you feel stuck.

You’re not alone. Hundreds of thousands of people are victimized by crime and violence every year, devastated by downsizing at work, or reeling from relationship betrayals, breakups, and other social traumas. The good news is that no matter what your injury, clinical psychologist and researcher Dr. Everett Worthington has found that there is a way to unburden yourself through forgiveness and move ahead with life. His new program, Five Steps to Forgiveness, offers step-by-step advice on how to achieve this breakthrough.

Based on more than a decade of research, including his own work and

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0609609181
• ISBN 13: 9780609609187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 277