{"id":23334,"date":"2011-05-11T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23334"},"modified":"2011-05-11T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T13:10:33","slug":"do-you-have-a-moral-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23334","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a “moral injury”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes and Military.com<\/a> report that the new buzz word in the mental health vocabulary is “moral injury” to describe combat stress;<\/p>\n

In the mental health community, moral injury is defined as stress arising from witnessing, perpetrating or failing to stop actions that violate a person’s deeply held belief system. In combat, this could be the killing of a woman or child, the inability to save a fellow Marine, or the failure of leadership to live up to a moral code.<\/p>\n

For the struggles that Marines have with combat stress from actions in war, the Corps likes the term “inner conflict.” Brett Litz, who is with the National Center for PTSD and presented at the conference, says he prefers “moral injury” over “inner conflict” because it is evocative and specific.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marines don’t like the term because it makes them appear immoral. I have to agree. In the world of mental health professionals who usually twist themselves into knots to keep from making moral judgments on certain classes of people and illnesses, this one seems rather poorly considered. Of course, they’d like to make it a moral judgment on the people who kill for a living, people who mental health professionals consider inferior in the first place.<\/p>\n

I absolutely dare the mental health professional community to say serial killers or sexual predators suffer from “moral injuries”. It’ll never happen because those people need to be sheltered from moral judgements, whereas soldiers and Marines don’t in their tiny, obtuse world.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Mew for the link. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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