Risk and Resilience
According to the abstract: This article talks about the attachment styles of families and the coping of multiple deployments. Like moral injury this maladaptive behavior of coping is from the loss and feelings of abandonment. This paper takes a psychodynamic approach and uses development theory to “describe a family attachment network model of military families during deployment and reintegration that is grounded in attachment theory and family systems theory”. This paper talks about many different perspectives including family dynamics, coping skills and resiliency. However, this topic is outside of the category due to working with older, but not geriatric aged adults who are in Operation Enduring Iraqi …show more content…
It is done through a development psychology in a similar concept to risk and resiliency article. The concept of a moral injury model is like the spiritual and emotional axis of PTSD and other serious mental and behavioral problems. These diagnosis and events are in the wake of war-zone events that inflict damage to rather threaten personal life and safety.
The article then talked about the literature review about moral injury one fascinating approach was the developed and evaluated the psychometric properties of the “Moral Injury Events Scale (MIES). This is a 9-item Likert-scale self-report questionnaire for potentially morally injurious events”.
The article then breaks down the different ways that moral injury can happen through a cognitive dissonance in indirect impacts from our community, our developing moral schemas. Through this lens, it is what is constituted as betrayals of trust, through “actions or failures to act, perceived to be committed by members of one’s moral covenant, including family members, teachers, community leaders, a deity, or oneself”. This article is a theoretical piece and touches on all versions of spiritual, bereavement and emotional care through a comprehensive peer reviewed …show more content…
The article talks about the difference between PTSD and moral injury. Interestingly, it goes into what a social worker should do to help a client with moral injury. “Social workers must have several areas of competence including (1) the quality of therapeutic presence and unconditional regard, (2) treatment modalities for trauma, (3) the ethical integration of faith and practice, and (4) moral injury specific assessment and intervention”. The article then talked about the literature review about moral