Moral Injury: An Overview of Conceptual, Definitional, Assessment and Treatment Issues
Friday, August 25, 2023
11:00AM - 12:00PM PDT
This presentation will enhance clinicians and researchers knowledge about how to define, assess, and treat moral injury.
Location: Online Pre-Recorded
Continuing Education: 1 (Applied through NASW Oregon)
Cost: Free to RVP Volunteers, Vet Center and VA Staff and Partnering Clinics
$29 for Other Community Providers
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers.
What You Will Learn:
The idea that people can be lastingly harmed by their own transgressive behavior and can suffer because of others’ moral failures is as old as humanity, yet these concepts have only recently been considered as clinically relevant social, biological, spiritual, and psychological problems. The term that is used to describe these transgressive harms and the outcome of those experiences is moral injury. This presentation will enhance clinicians and researchers knowledge about how to define, assess, and treat moral injury.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, the learner will be able to:
- Define moral injury.
- Discuss how to assess moral injury using a moral injury assessment instrument, and distinguish moral injury from moral distress and PTSD.
- Describe the phenomenology, clinical needs, and methods for helping those suffering from moral injury.
CE Faculty
Dr. Brett Litz earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton and did his clinical internship at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Psychology Department at Boston University as well as the Director of the Mental Health Core of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiological Research and Information Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
Dr. Litz is principal investigator on various research projects funded by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Dr. Litz is internationally recognized as an expert on PTSD, military trauma, and the early intervention and treatment of trauma, traumatic loss, and moral injury. He also evaluates the mental health outcomes associated with military deployments across the lifespan and develops and validates assessment instruments to evaluate PTSD and moral injury.
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Contact: Jennifer Keeling, RVP Health Network Volunteer and Engagement Manager .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
503-954-2259
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