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|a Nimchek, Laura Toce
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|a Self-forgiveness and depression in Christian women:
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|a West Hartford, CT:
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|a Summary: In the United States, women are two times more likely than men to suffer from depression. While there are various causes of depression in women, including a tendency toward self-criticalness and difficulty with self-forgiveness, research has shown that Christian women endorse specific dysfunctional thoughts related to their religious belief structure that can contribute to depression. Cognitive therapy has proven effective in helping women to identify and modify negative thought patterns that perpetuate depression, such as self-criticalness, however has not focused on self-forgiveness. Self-forgiveness, which is based on forgiveness, is an important concept in the treatment of depression as it focuses on one's ability to love oneself and relinquish thoughts that may be self critical and thus, maladaptive. Christian women can engage in negative self-statements that are self-critical and self-blaming in response to their depressive symptoms. Oftentimes they strive toward unrealistic standards of perfection and are unable to experience self-love and compassion. Thus, Christian women could benefit from self-forgiveness as a means to increase self-compassion by alleviating their negative self-statements and guilt feelings. This dissertation provides a treatment manual of self-forgiveness that utilizes cognitive therapy in a group setting for Christian women who suffer from depression with the objective of decreasing depression and increasing self-forgiveness.
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|a Depression in women
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