title: Forgiveness and health: psycho-spiritual integration and the promotion of better healthcare.
abstract: Psychology and religiousness/spirituality continue to be perceived as incongruent and incompatible, often resulting in a disconnection and suboptimal level of collaboration between the two fields to the detriment of healthcare. Nevertheless, forgiveness, or an absence of ill will, is a construct central to both mainstream world religion/spirituality and the field of psychology. Understanding and recognizing the construct of forgiveness and its mutually central application can foster increased collaboration between the fields. As a result, individually and collectively, the two fields will be better able to expand and further develop their many shared principles in the service of better healthcare.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA. webbjr@etsu.edu
authors.forename: Jon R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Webb
authors.forename: Loren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Toussaint
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Conway-Williams
mesh_terms: D061347:Forgiveness; D006801:Humans; D026441:Mind-Body Therapies; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012067:Religion; D029181:Spirituality