Addressing Moral Injury in Clinical Practice: Summary of Emerging Evidence and Approaches

Whether focusing on military service members or veterans, first responders, survivors of abuse, or other human-perpetrated events, trauma often features moral dimensions that might violate one’s beliefs that provide a sense of identity, self-worth and guide his or her thoughts and behavior in an unavoidably social world. In turn, depending on the context of the trauma, survivors might be profoundly harmed by their own transgressive actions and/or suffer as a result of others’ moral wrongdoing. The purpose of this workshop is to summarize the state of the evidence on moral injury and describing promising approaches to addressing this condition in clinical practice.

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• Summarize recent empirical and clinical advances on moral injury.
• Describe intervention strategies for addressing psychological and spiritual dimensions of moral injury.

Joseph Currier, PhD