Forgiveness Research

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Practicing Forgiveness: A path toward healing

Citations:

Balkin, R. S. (2021). Practicing forgiveness: A path toward healing. Oxford University Press.

Balkin, R. S. (2024, November). How to forgive (even if they’re unrepentant). Edited by M. Huston. Psyche. Aeon Media. https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-forgive-someone-even-if-they-dont-show-remors

Sobrino, M. D., & Balkin, R. S. (2025). The Inventario de Perdón y Reconciliación: Cross-Cultural Evaluation for a Spanish Translation of the Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2025.2458888

Balkin, R.S., Keith, S.N., Stewart, K.D., & Hendricks, L. (2024). Associations between forgiveness, spirituality, and justice among Black Americans. Counseling and Values, 69(1), 92-116. https://doi.org/10.1163/2161007x-bja10009

Balkin, R.S., Mendoza, S.M., Hendricks, L., Harris, N.A., Flores, S., Casillas, C., & Wood, A. (2021). Evaluation of trauma, forgiveness, and well-being among African Americans. Journal of Counseling & Development, 99, 315-325. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12377

Balkin, R. S., Perepiczka, M., Sowell, S. M., Cumi, K., & Gnilka, P. G. (2016). The Forgiveness-Reconciliation Model: An empirically supported process for humanistic counseling.  Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 55, 55-65, doi: 10.1002/johc.12024

Balkin, R. S., Harris, N., Freeman, S. J., & Huntington, S. (2014). The Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory: An instrument to process through issues of forgiveness and conflict. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 47, 3-13. doi: 10.1177/0748175613497037

Balkin, R. S., Freeman, S. J., & Lyman, S. R. (2009). Forgiveness, reconciliation, and mechila: Integrating the Jewish concept of forgiveness in to clinical practice. Counseling and Values, 53, 153-160.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-007X.2009.tb00121.x

Reviews:

Practicing Forgiveness: A Path Toward Healing. (2020). Publishers Weekly, 267(32), 42–43.

Wolpe, D. (2021). How to Forgive. Commentary, 151(4), 52–53.

Farkas, K. J. (2021). Practicing forgiveness: a path toward healing: by Balkin, R.S., New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 213 pages with appendices, references, and index. $24.95 hardback, ISBN 9780190937201. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 21(2), 194–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533256X.2021.1893950