Moral Injury
We designed this website as a dynamic information resource and forum to bring together non-Veterans, Veterans and their families, healthcare providers, clergy and chaplains, media, and researchers to be informed about the current state of knowledge about moral injury and contribute to improvements in clinical care and research. We believe that moral injury is a transdiagnostic problem that should be studied and addressed in an interdisciplinary fashion. Moral injury can be a standalone targetable problem or comorbid with medical and physical rehabilitation problems, or behavioral health disorders, like PTSD and depression.
Although the idea of moral injury has gained widespread acceptance, we are just beginning to understand the experiences that define the syndrome of moral injury as well as methods to assess it. We currently do not know how many or how much Veterans, active-duty service members, first responders, healthcare providers, and other groups at high risk for exposure to potentially morally injurious experiences are affected by symptoms of moral injury. Although there are promising treatments for moral injury, they have been hampered by a lack of agreement about what moral injury is and how to assess it.
This website will present the most recent (and periodically updated) research on the assessment and treatment of moral injury; provide opportunities for education and training; and foster a discourse between researchers, clinicians, veterans and their loved ones, as well as the non-Veteran community, to advance the understanding of this important but emerging concept.
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