Forgiveness Therapy in the Management of Anxiety among Hospitalized Alcoholic Clients

Effectiveness of forgiveness therapy on anxiety was evaluated among alcoholics who undergo treatment in a selected De-addiction Centre. This was achieved adopting experimental approach with one group pre-test post-test control group design. Sixty (N=60) hospitalized alcoholic clients were recruited for the study. Among them equal number of participants were assigned to control group (n=30) and to experimental group (n=30) respectively. State Trait Anxiety Inventory was administered to assess the level of anxiety of participants. Forgiveness therapy was applied as an intervention to reduce anxiety among alcoholic clients of experimental group for 20 minutes to each client for six sessions in six days. Post assessment of the level of anxiety was made after successive completion of 6 sessions of intervention. Significant effect of forgiveness therapy was identified employing t test. Hence, it is concluded and recommended forgiveness therapy can be applied as a psycho-therapeutic approach in reducing anxiety.