MFT-8509: Ethical Challenges and Moral Injuries Across Military and Veteran Populations

Doehring, C. (2019). Military moral injury: An evidence-based and intercultural approach to spiritual care. Pastoral Psychology, 68(1), 15–30.
This resource describes how an evidence-based intercultural approach to spiritual care can be provided to veterans struggling with moral injury.

Evans, W. R., Szabo, Y. Z., Stanley, M. A., Barrera, T. L., Exline, J. J., Pargament, K. I., & Teng, E. J. (2018). Life satisfaction among veterans: Unique associations with morally injurious events and posttraumatic growth. Traumatology, 24(4), 263–270.
This resource explored differences between veterans that experience growth-related outcomes vs. those with negative changes in life satisfaction as a result of being exposed to potentially morally injurious events.

Farnsworth, J. K. (2021). Case conceptualization for moral injury. In J. M. Currier, K. D. Drescher, & J. Nieuwsma (Eds.), Addressing moral injury in clinical practice (pp. 87–103). American Psychological Association.
This resource provides a process-based framework to inform treatment planning and select interventions when working with veterans with moral injuries.

Held, P., Klassen, B. J., Hall, J. M., Friese, T. R., Bertsch-Gout, M. M., Zalta, A. K., & Pollack, M. H. (2019). I knew it was wrong the moment I got the order: A narrative thematic analysis of moral injury in combat veterans. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 11(4), 396–405.
This resource provides a narrative analysis of moral injuries from interviews with eight veterans and discussed five main themes with subthemes that emerged.

Klassen, B. J., Brennan, M. B., & Held, P. (2021). Clinician issues in treating moral injury. In J. M. Currier, K. D. Drescher, & J. Nieuwsma (Eds.), Addressing moral injury in clinical practice (pp. 105–122). American Psychological Association.
This resource discusses therapist factors that may affect treatment of moral injury in veterans.