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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"moral injury"”.
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Examining Moral Injury in Legal Involved Veterans
… the potential for exposure to potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs) during legal involvement and the resulting expression of moral injury as contributors have not yet been examined in this population. As a result, we adapted measures of moral injury to assess moral injury in the …
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An Empirical Investigation of Moral Injury in Combat Veterans
The moral injury construct was proposed to identify and describe the deleterious impact of engaging in acts that transgress accepted boundaries of behavior during combat and that challenge one’s sense of self as a good person. These acts, labeled “transgressive acts,” are proposed to lead to a …
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A Disability Theology of Limits for Responding to Moral Injury
… home from a decade of war, ridden by PTSD and moral injury, only to discover lethargy, lack of seriousness and complacency in societal response. The seriousness of our soldiers’ wounds, to body and spirit alike, demand ethical, societal and theological responsibility. Failure to address the …
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Prevalence of moral injury in Canadian Forces members deployed to Afghanistan
Moral injury is a relatively new area of study within military mental health care, as such, prevalence estimates for both moral injury and exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIE; a moral injury precursor) are unknown for many of the world’s militaries. PMIE is commonly defined as …
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President Joseph R. Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal Rhetoric: Scapegoating, American Exceptionalism, and Moral Injury
… the Kabul Airport, and public discourse on the “moral injury” of American veterans. From each of these, I examine how, in an attempt to unify the American “people,” through scapegoating the Afghan people, Biden only further divides the American “people” as they witness the violence befalling the …
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I'm Not That Person: A Qualitative Study of Moral Injury in Forensic Psychiatric Patients
… clinical reports describe a phenomenon termed moral injury which profiles the deleterious emotional effects that can arise from actions that transgress moral beliefs and expectations (Litz et al., 2009). Shame, guilt, spiritual/existential conflict, and loss of trust are considered to be core …
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The Impact Of Moral Injury And Moral Distress On Spirituality From A Military Perspective
… to gain greater insight and understanding of how moral injury, moral distress, and shame can influence spirituality and to determine ways to effectively improve treatment to support and serve those carrying these unspeakable wounds. The experience of loss, betrayal, uncertainty, and fractured …
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Mend the Gap: How Organisations Can Cultivate Readiness for Group Coaching to Mend After Moral Injury
There is limited understanding of how workplace moral injury affects individuals and organisational systems. “Workplace moral injury is a response to witnessing or participating in behaviours that contradict one’s moral beliefs” (Praslova, 2022). This study explores how organisations can create the …
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Moral injury and NHS talking therapies: psychological therapists and their experiences of moral challenges - a reflexive thematic analysis
… how psychological therapists experience morally challenging events when working in NHS Talking Therapies (formally IAPT) and why these events may occur. The theory of Moral Injury was used as the guiding theoretical concept to make sense of participant’s experiences, and a Reflexive …
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An Examination of Moral Injury, Moral Emotions, and Adult Attachment in the Prediction of PTSD for Male Veterans
… explain this relationship remain unexplored. Moral injury, defined as events in combat that conflict with moral beliefs, may help to explain this relationship, as moral injury is posited to be understood using stable, internal attributions about the self and others. Litz and colleagues (2009) …
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Injuries of the mind, body, and soul : an exploration of moral injury among military service members and veterans
… immediate decision-making that may violate the moral codes and personal values to which most individuals ascribe. If unacknowledged, these factors can lead to injuries that can affect the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual health of military men and women. The term moral injury has …
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The Relationship Between Pre-Deployment Experiences of Interpersonal Violence and Moral Injury: The Moderating Role of Social Support
Initial research on moral injury has shown the construct to be associated with many negative mental health outcomes such as depression, suicidal ideation, reduced sense of belonging, anxiety, anger, and spiritual distress. In addition, moral injury among service members has also been shown to be …
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Reconciling Moral Dissonance: A Framework for Re-Integrating Moral Orientation with Life Agency During Warfighters’ Struggles with Military Moral Injury
… the formation and healing of Military Moral Injury (MMI). I adapt the work of Stephen Brookfield and Neal Krause to evaluate using the TMM as a methodology for dealing with the complex issues of MMI within a military deployment cycle (training, warfighting, and healing) (Brookfield …
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An exploration of burnout, moral distress, and moral injury: A nationwide survey of their influence on well-being in physical therapists
… decreased quality of care, and poor well-being. Moral injury may lead to poor well-being as current burnout interventions have limited effectiveness. The purpose of this study is to examine whether burnout and/or moral injury are related to physical therapist intention to leave their job or …
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The Roles of Psychological Hardiness and Moral Injury in the Relationships Between War-zone Stressors and Internalizing Distress among Post-9/11 Military Service Members
… (PBEs) are positively associated with moral injury (MI), PTSD, depression, and suicidality. In addition, war zone environments may lead to the development of fearlessness about death (FAD), through habituation to fear and pain. Thus, examining protective mechanisms is critical, such as …
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(Re)Turning Warriors: A Practical Theology of Military Moral Stress
<p>The concept of military moral injury emerged in the past decade as a way to understand how traumatic levels of moral emotions (not posttraumatic fear) generate moral anguish experienced by some military service members. Interdisciplinary research on moral injury has included clinical …
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The Psychological Vest: Trauma, Resiliency, and Posttraumatic Growth Among Police Officers
… situations, while held to extremely high moral and ethical standards and intense public scrutiny. Given their level of trauma exposure and risk for traumatic and morally injurious distress, it is vital to better understand psychosocial factors which serve to increase risk or resilience, to …
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A Sense of Trust: Somatic Spiritual Practices as a Path to Wholeness in Spiritually Integrated Trauma Care
… mediate the relationship between a potentially morally injurious event and both anxiety and PTSD (Evans et al., 2018), often intensifying trauma and moral injury symptoms as well as opening a pathway for spiritual integration and growth (Pargament & Exline, 2022). In this dissertation, I focus …
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Combat-Activated Thymic Disorientation
… or by the complementary psycho-philosophical “moral injury” paradigm. Following a systematic review of the relevant literature, a new approach is proposed to address these distressing phenomena of combat-related disorientation based on thymos, an ancient Greek anthropological concept. The …
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The Withdrawal From Afghanistan: Impacts on U.S. Veterans Who Served in Afghanistan
… themes: Feelings of Pride, Experiences of Moral Injury, Questioning the Government, Civilian Lack of Understanding, and Calls to Action. Feelings of pride were reported regarding humanitarian efforts during deployments, defending the nation, and perceptions of military service previous to …
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