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Interpersonal Forgiveness Within the Helping Professions: An Attempt to Resolve Differences of Opinion

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Counseling and Values

Volume

36

Issue

2

First Page

84

Last Page

103

Abstract

Lakatos's (1978) philosophy of science is used as a guide for resolving published authors' differences of opinion about interpersonal forgiveness. We first review the ancient writings and current philosophical works regarding interpersonal forgiveness. With these ideas as a foundation we then critique six published papers on forgiveness, all of which have counseling implications. It is suggested that the works are not yet grounded in the foundational writings on forgiveness. The works, thus, may need some refinement in the area of definition, or proposed consequences for a forgiver, or in the processes used to bring about forgiveness in clients. A process model of interpersonal forgiveness then is described. Implications for the use of interpersonal forgiveness within counseling are drawn. 1991 American Counseling Association

Department

Department of Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies

Original Publication Date

1-1-1991

DOI of published version

10.1002/j.2161-007X.1991.tb00966.x

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