Does the contextual concept of exoneration indeed differ from forgiveness?

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According to Boszormenyi-Nagy's contextual therapy, there is a fundamental difference between his concept of exoneration and the well-known concept of forgiveness. This article compares the core elements of exoneration with an international study of adult children who have forgiven their parents. The comparison of the core elements of exoneration with the child-parent forgiveness processes showed that the investigated forgiveness processes correspond to the described core elements of exoneration. So, this means that the word forgiveness can also be used in contextual therapy.