Dr. Everett Worthington, VCU Psychology

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Dr. Everett Worthington

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Forgiveness Intervention Manuals
Available for Download

The Five Steps to REACH Forgiveness and Becoming a More Forgiving Person is a psychoeducational small group program available for anyone's use (requiring citation and proper acknowledgement, but requiring no fees). There are two versions:

Leader Manual and Participant Manual for Psychoeducational Groups for Becoming a More Forgiving Person for Use in Secular Groups.
Leader Manual and Participant Manual for Psychoeducational Groups for Becoming a More Forgiving Christian for Use in Groups Tailored to Christians.

Hope-focused Couple Approaches, for couple enrichment or therapy, is composed of a Forgiveness and Reconciliation through Experiencing Empathy (FREE) portion and a communication and conflict resultion portion (HOPE):

Leader Manual (and Cue Sheets) and Participant Manual for Psychoeducational Groups for Forgiveness and Reconciliation through Experiencing Empathy (FREE) for Use with Couples.
Leader Manual (or graphics-free version of Leader Manual) and Participant Manual for Psychoeducational Groups for Handling Our Problems Effectively (HOPE) for Use with Couples.