title: The role of forgiveness in rehabilitation.
abstract: This article proposes that unresolved forgiveness issues may affect rehabilitation patients' motivation to participate in their physical therapy, and that their therapeutic outcomes may benefit from working through a forgiveness process. I also suggest that chaplains have a role in helping patients address their unresolved forgiveness issues and lowered motivation by helping the patients work through a forgiveness process. For patients with conditions caused at least in part by their own behavior, or even by someone else, this article offers a case study of pastoral care provided in light of unresolved forgiveness issues and a working through of a forgiveness process. Also presented is a revised model of a forgiveness process that informs the pastoral care provided in the case study.
authors.affiliation: W. M. Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, 785 Mamaroneck Rd., White Plains, NY 10605, USA. jbauman@burke.org
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bauman
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D006801:Humans; D010327:Pastoral Care; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D026761:Physical Therapy Specialty; D012046:Rehabilitation