El Perdón como Herramienta Clínica en Terapia Individual y de Pareja

The aim of the present article is to analyze the main concepts in Psychology of Forgiveness and its contribution to clinical practice. We analyze the key issues on the concept, the dimensions and the definition of forgiveness, and we go through the most important classifications of types of forgiveness. We point out the effects of forgiveness in health and wellbeing, as well as its implications when working with situations where there have been offense experiences. In the field of marital therapy, we analyze the most important research on forgiveness and couple relationship, variables most frequently related to marital forgiveness and forgiveness used in clinical couple therapy.