In this chapter, my goal is to provide one structure that I hope will help counselors assist people to forgive after a transgression and to become more forgiving people. To accomplish this, I will combine the Scriptures about forgiveness with the scientific studies done in our lab and elsewhere to provide an understanding of unforgiveness and forgiveness that complements and fleshes out what is said in Scripture. I describe a method of helping people forgive—which I describe first within a psychoeducational
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