Self-Forgiveness Journal Article Review

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Self-Forgiveness: the Stepchild of Forgiveness Research Luisa S. D. Liberty University This is a journal article review critically reviewing the article “Self-Forgiveness: the Stepchild of Forgiveness Research” published in Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology in 2005, written by Julie H. Hall and Frank D. Fincham. The first session of this review will summarize the article, the second session will cover this author’s interaction with this article, and finally the third session will reveal this author’s attempt to put into application the material learned in this article. Summary This journal article serves as an introduction to Self-Forgiveness. Self-forgiveness is defined as an emotional expression of love and respect toward one-self and putting aside the negative thoughts stemmed from wrong actions. Self-forgiveness is similar to interpersonal forgiveness, for which there is much more literature available, but self-forgiveness is classified as intrapersonal forgiveness. Interpersonal forgiveness involves forgiveness from the offender to the person offended, therefore interpersonal. On the other hand, self-forgiveness is intrapersonal because it does not involve another person but rather one-self. Hall and Finchman attempted to show the similarities and differences between these two forms of forgiveness by providing a chart, which seems to be a very informative and useful chart. The most important observation is the fact that the person must first acknowledge the wrong done and then accept responsibility before the process of self-forgiveness begins. True self-forgiveness is a long process. The writers of this journal article point the lack of research and literature available about this subject. The object of this research article was mainly to create awareness and open the door to more research on this matter. They also offered a theoretical

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