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Discover Forgiveness is committed to bringing the latest research and resources to inspire a global conversation on the power of forgiveness in personal growth and healing. Browse our comprehensive selection of workbooks, research, workshops, events, and tools that are accessible to all and particularly to mental health professionals, educators, and faith leaders.

Forgiveness is a powerful force for positive change. Explore how the research and resources can advance your understanding of and experiences with forgiveness.

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24 Forgiveness Activities, Exercises, Tips and Worksheets

Tool
Non-Region Specific
General
How Forgiveness Happens

A Meta-analysis of the Association Between Forgiveness of Others and Physical Health

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

A Student's Introduction to Forgiveness

Tool
Non-Region Specific
Educators
Education
How Forgiveness Happens

A meta‐analysis of forgiveness education interventions’ effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents

Research
Educators
Education
Physical and Mental Health

An Analysis of a Sample of the General Population's Understanding of Forgiveness: Implications for Mental Health Counselors

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Apology and Restitution: The Psychophysiology of Forgiveness after Accountable Relational Repair Responses

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Are Religious Practices Indirectly Related to Stress at Work Through the Tendency to Forgive? A Sample of Polish Employees

Research
Europe
Faith Leaders
Spirituality and Religion

Beliefs about the Nature of Forgiveness and Avoidance of an Offender among Chinese College Students

Research
Asia
Educators
What Forgiveness Is

Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Research
Africa
Policy Makers
Policy

Beyond HIV Shame: Effects of Self-Forgiveness in Improving Mental Health in HIV-Positive Individuals in Poland

Research
Europe
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health
What Forgiveness Can Do

Bibliography of Narrative Reviews and Meta-analyses on Forgiveness

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Compassion-focused Reappraisal, Benefit-focused Reappraisal, and Rumination After an Interpersonal offense: Emotion Regulation Implications for Subjective Emotion, Linguistic Responses, and Physiology.

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Compassionate reappraisal and emotion suppression as alternatives to offense-focused rumination: Implications for forgiveness and psychophysiological well-being.

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Conceptualizations of Forgiveness: a Latin America-Western Europe Comparison

Research
South America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Consecutive Reappraisal Strategies Strengthen and Sustain Empathy and Forgiveness: Utilizing Compassion and Benefit Finding While Holding Offenders Accountable.

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Creating Space for Forgiveness by Letting Go of Anger

Tool
Non-Region Specific
Educators
How Forgiveness Happens

Do Forgiveness Campaign Activities Improve Forgiveness, Mental Health, and Flourishing?

Research
South America
Mental Health Professionals
What Forgiveness Can Do

Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Efficacy of Psychotherapeutic Interventions to Promote Forgiveness: A Meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions to promote forgiveness: A meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Efficacy of the REACH Forgiveness Intervention in Indian College Students

Research
Asia
Educators
Education

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Community-based Forgiveness Campaign

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Exploring Forgiveness through Theologically Informed Education: Lessons from Judaism

Research
Educators
Education
Spirituality and Religion
What Forgiveness Can Do

Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness

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Non-Region Specific
General
How Forgiveness Happens
What Forgiveness Can Do

Forgiveness

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Non-Region Specific
Educators
Education

Forgiveness

Research
Non-Region Specific
Educators
Education

Forgiveness Education in Fourth- through Eighth-Grade Classrooms: Development and Evaluation of a New Forgiveness Curriculum

Research
North America
Educators
Education
How Forgiveness Is Measured

Forgiveness Psychoeducation with Emerging Adults: REACH Forgiveness and Community Campaigns for Forgiveness

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Non-Region Specific
Educators
Education
How Forgiveness Is Measured

Forgiveness Therapy for the Promotion of Mental Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Forgiveness Therapy: 6+ Techniques to Help Clients Forgive

Tool
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
How Forgiveness Happens
Social Science
Physical and Mental Health
Restoration Practices

Forgiveness and Flourishing: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Self-Compassion

Research
Europe
General
How Forgiveness Is Measured
What Forgiveness Can Do

Forgiveness and Its Moral Dimensions

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Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Forgiveness and Love

Research
Non-Region Specific
Faith Leaders
Spirituality and Religion

Forgiveness and Resentment

Research
Non-Region Specific
Policy Makers
Policy

Forgiveness and Well-being

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Forgiveness as a character strength: Toward a developmental model and research agenda

Research
North America
General
What Forgiveness Is

Forgiveness as an Educational Goal with At-risk Adolescents

Research
North America
Educators
Education

Forgiveness as an Intervention with Incest Survivors

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Forgiveness in the Classroom

Tool
Non-Region Specific
Educators
Education

Forgiveness of Others and Health: Do Race and Neighborhood Matter?

Research
North America
Policy Makers
Policy

Forgiveness, Embodiment, and Relational Accountability: Victim and Transgressor Psychophysiology Research

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Forgiveness, Resentment and Hatred

Research
Non-Region Specific
Faith Leaders
Spirituality and Religion

Forgiving the Self and Physical and Mental Health Correlates: A Meta-analytic Review

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Forgivingness

Research
Non-Region Specific
Policy Makers
Policy

Freedom and Forgiveness

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Gender Differences in Forgiveness and its Affective Correlates

Research
Europe
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Gender and Forgiveness: A Meta-analytic Review and Research Agenda

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

God's Standing to Forgive

Research
Non-Region Specific
Faith Leaders
Spirituality and Religion

Granting Forgiveness or Harboring Grudges: Implications for Emotions, Physiology, and Health

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Granting Forgiveness: State and trait evidence for genetic and gender indirect effects through empathy.

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Handbook of Forgiveness (2nd Edition)

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

How is Self-Forgiveness Possible?

Research
Non-Region Specific
Educators
Education

Incorporating the Developmental Considerations in a Proposed Forgiveness Education Intervention for Suicidal Adolescents

Research
North America
Educators
Education
What Forgiveness Can Do
Physical and Mental Health

Indirect Effects of Forgiveness on Psychological Health Through Anger and Hope: A Parallel Mediation Analysis

Research
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

International REACH Forgiveness Intervention: A Multisite Randomised Controlled Trial

Research
Non-Region Specific
General
What Forgiveness Can Do
How Forgiveness Is Measured
Physical and Mental Health

Introduction

Research
Non-Region Specific
Policy Makers
Policy

Learning from Courageous Forgivers in the Classroom

Tool
North America
Educators
Education
What Forgiveness Can Do

Let it Rest: Sleep and Health as Positive Correlates of Forgiveness of Others and Self-Forgiveness

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
What Forgiveness Can Do
Physiology
Physical and Mental Health

Measures of Forgiveness: Self-report, Physiological, Chemical, and Behavioral Indicators

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Measuring Forgiveness in Health-related Contexts

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Meta-analytic Connections Between Forgiveness and Health: the Moderating Effects of Forgiveness-Related Distinctions

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Moving Forward: Six Steps to Forgiving Yourself and Breaking Free from the Past

Tool
General
How Forgiveness Happens
What Forgiveness Can Do

Negative Interpersonal Interactions and Dating Abuse Perpetration: The Mediating Role of Dispositional Forgivingness

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Please Forgive Me: Transgressors’ Emotions and Physiology During Imagery of Seeking Forgiveness and Victim Responses

Research
North America
Faith Leaders
Spirituality and Religion

Positive reappraisals after an offense: Event-related potentials and emotional effects of benefit-finding and compassion.

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Radicalized Forgiveness

Research
North America
General

Reducing Fury: A Tool for Mental Health

Tool
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Responsibility and Atonement

Research
Non-Region Specific
Faith Leaders
Spirituality and Religion

Restore: The Journey to Self-Forgiveness

Tool
Non-Region Specific
Faith Leaders
How Forgiveness Happens
Restoration Practices
What Forgiveness Can Do

Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice, and Forgiveness: An Experimental Psychophysiology Analysis

Research
North America
Policy Makers
Policy

Self-Forgiveness and Responsible Moral Agency

Research
Non-Region Specific
Policy Makers
Policy

Self-Forgiveness and Self-Condemnation in the Context of Addictive Behavior and Suicidal Behavior

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
What Forgiveness Can Do
Physical and Mental Health

Self-Forgiveness and Self-Respect

Research
Non-Region Specific
Educators
Education

Self-forgiveness

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

Self-forgiveness and Forgiveness-seeking in Response to Rumination: Cardiac and Emotional Responses of Transgressors

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

The Alteration Thesis: Forgiveness as a Normative Power

Research
Non-Region Specific
Educators
Education

The Association Between Parent and Child ACEs is Buffered by Forgiveness of Others and Self-Forgiveness

Research
Mental Health Professionals
How Forgiveness Is Measured
Psychology

The Community Toolbox Section 4: Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Tool
Non-Region Specific
General
Restoration Practices
How Forgiveness Happens
What Forgiveness Can Do

The Effectiveness of a Forgiveness Intervention on Mental Health in Bereaved Parents—A Pilot Study

Research
North America
Educators
Education

The Effects of a Forgiveness Intervention on Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

The Forgiveness Project: Personal Stories of Healing

Tool
General
What Forgiveness Can Do

The Forgiveness Toolbox

Tool
Europe
General

The Normative Significance of Forgiveness

Research
Non-Region Specific
Policy Makers
Policy

The Physiological Substrate of Forgiveness

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

The Propensity to Forgive: Findings from Lebanon

Research
Middle East
Faith Leaders
Spirituality and Religion

The Psychology of Interpersonal Forgiveness and Guidelines for Forgiveness Therapy: What Therapists Need to Know to Help Their Clients Forgive

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

The REACH Forgiveness Workbook

Tool
Non-Region Specific
Faith Leaders
Multidisciplinary Practices

The Relationship Between Forgiveness and Health Outcomes Among People Living with HIV: A Cross-Sectional Study in France

Research
Europe
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

The Relationship between Forgiveness and Physical and Mental Health in Women and Men: The Mediating Role of Self-Consciousness

Research
Europe
General
Physical and Mental Health

The Road to Forgiveness: A Meta-analytic Synthesis of Its Situational and Dispositional Correlates

Research
Non-Region Specific
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health

The Value of Prospective Reasoning for Close Relationships

Research
North America
Mental Health Professionals
Physical and Mental Health
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