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Educational Psychology

University of Northern Iowa

1999

Adolescent psychology; Children of divorced parents; Forgiveness;

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Forgiveness Education As A Factor In Adolescent Adjustment To Parental Divorce, Amy L. Knupp Jan 1999

Forgiveness Education As A Factor In Adolescent Adjustment To Parental Divorce, Amy L. Knupp

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An educational intervention with forgiveness as the goal, was implemented with five adolescents who had experienced a parental divorce. The adolescents were all from a Midwestern city, ages 12-14, and Caucasian. The goal of the intervention was for the experimental participants to forgive their parents for a hurt associated with a parental divorce. An exploratory design with a static control group was used. Five subjects volunteered for the forgiveness education intervention, comprising the experimental group, and five subjects agreed to fill out pre- and post-test measures, for monetary reimbursement, composing the control group. The educational intervention lasted 10 weeks, and …