Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada.
J Marital Fam Ther. 2011 Oct;37(4):491-502. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00234.x. Epub 2011 May 2.
This study explored how forgiveness unfolds in the context of emotion-focused couples therapy (EFT-C) in eight cases of women betrayed by their partners. Forgiveness was defined as a process involving the reduction in negative feelings and the giving out of undeserved compassion. This was measured by changes in the pre- and posttreatment scores on the Enright Forgiveness Inventory, the Unfinished Business Resolution Scale, and a single item directly asking respondents to indicate their degree of forgiveness. A task analysis was performed to rigorously track the steps leading to forgiveness using videotapes of therapy sessions for eight couples. The performance of the four couples who forgave were compared with each other and then contrasted with the performance of another four couples who did not reach forgiveness at the end of therapy. Based on these observations, a model of the process of forgiveness in EFT-C and a process rating system were developed.
本研究探讨了在八名被伴侣背叛的女性的情感焦点夫妻治疗（EFT-C）的背景下，宽恕是如何展开的。宽恕被定义为一个涉及减少负面情绪和给予不应得的同情的过程。这是通过在恩赖特宽恕量表、未完成事务解决量表以及直接要求受访者表明其宽恕程度的单项得分的治疗前后分数的变化来衡量的。使用八对夫妇的治疗会话录像带进行了任务分析，以严格跟踪导致宽恕的步骤。将原谅的四对夫妇的表现相互比较，然后与治疗结束时没有达到宽恕的另外四对夫妇的表现进行对比。基于这些观察结果，开发了 EFT-C 中宽恕过程的模型和过程评分系统。
