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🎯 Main Points

Forgiveness

PSY409 - Positive Psychology

🔑 Key Definitions

Forgiveness: Deliberate decision to release resentment/vengeance regardless of deserving 🤝
REACH Model: Worthington's 5-step forgiveness model 🎯
What it's NOT: Forgetting, condoning, excusing, reconciliation, weakness ❌

👤 Important Figures

  • Robert Enright - 4-phase process model 📊
  • Everett Worthington - REACH model 🎯
  • Michael McCullough - Motivational change perspective 🧠

📊 Enright's 4 Phases

  • 1. Uncovering Phase 😢
  • 2. Decision Phase 🎯
  • 3. Work Phase 💗
  • 4. Deepening Phase 🌟

🎯 REACH Model (Worthington)

  • Recall - Remember the hurt 💭
  • Empathize - Understand the offender 💗
  • Altruistic gift - Give forgiveness as gift 🎁
  • Commit - Publicly commit to forgive 📢
  • Hold on - Hold when doubts arise 💪

💡 Exam Tips

  • Know REACH acronym completely 5️⃣
  • Enright = 4 phases; Worthington = REACH 📊
  • Forgiveness = gift to YOURSELF, not offender 🎁👤
  • NOT: forgetting, condoning, reconciliation ❌