Forgiveness Therapy - 2nd Edition by Robert D Enright & Richard P Fitzgibbons (Hardcover)

Number of Pages: 352
Genre: Psychology
Sub-Genre: Psychotherapy
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Age Range: Adult
Book theme: Counseling
Author: Robert D Enright & Richard P Fitzgibbons
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Language: English

About the Book

The second edition of Helping Clients Forgive, now retitled Forgiveness Therapy, updates and expands the pioneering work of Enright and Fitzgibbons. Featuring entirely new chapters focused on Forgiveness Education and the legacy of those who enter forgiveness therapy, the second edition also expands all of the text with new case studies, new empirical evaluation, modern philosophical roots of forgiveness therapy, and new measurement techniques.

Book Synopsis

Benefitting from over 13 years of new research, this second edition of Helping Clients Forgive, now retitled Forgiveness Therapy, updates the pioneering work of Enright and Fitzgibbons. The significant development of Forgiveness Therapy and greater understanding of the role of excessive anger in mental health disorders make this book a vital tool for clinicians.

Featuring new chapters focused on the lasting legacy of those who enter forgiveness therapy and on forgiveness education for children and adolescents, this book describes the approach's philosophical roots and includes new case studies, new empirical evaluations, and new measurement techniques.

About the Author

Robert D. Enright, PhD, received his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1976. He is a licensed psychologist and a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a position he has held since 1978.

He is a founding board member of the International Forgiveness Institute, Inc., which develops forgiveness education materials for schools withing conflict regions, such as Belfast, Northern Ireland, assisting teachers to deliver forgiveness instruction to students.

He has been a leader in the scientific study of forgiveness and its effects since 1985; Time magazine referred to him as "the forgiveness trailblazer." He is the author of more than 130 publications, including six books.

Dr. Enright and his colleagues have developed and tested a pathway to forgiveness that has helped incest survivors, people in drug rehabilitation, in hospice, in shelters for abused women, and in a cardiac unit of a hospital, among others. His forgiveness work has been discussed in national and international newspapers, magazines, and on radio and television programs.

Richard P. Fitzgibbons, MD, received his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in 1969 and completed his training in psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center in 1976. He participated in cognitive therapy research in his training with Aaron T. Beck.

Currently, he is the director of a private practice outside Philadelphia. Since 1976 he has used forgiveness therapy, and in 1986 he wrote a seminal paper on the use of forgiveness in psychotherapy.

Dr. Fitzgibbons has presented at many conferences for over 40 years to couples, mental health professionals, educators, and business and church leaders on forgiveness therapy in the resolution of excessive anger in children, adolescents, and adults in schools, families, and marriages. He has made numerous appearances on radio and television discussing the treatment of excessive anger through forgiveness therapy.