Many have emphasized the need for mental health providers to have effective, culturally respectful conversations with those they serve. This is especially true when it comes to emotionally loaded conversations –
Many people in society—including a fairly large number of therapists—seem to think that veterans come back traumatized by what they see and do in combat.
Although they have some overlapping challenges, Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) and Moral Injury are not the same thing. A service member or veteran may have PTS, Moral Injury, or both. The mental state of someone with PTS is that of someone who feels unsafe...
Based on more than a decade of walking with warriors in the trenches of mental warfare, I’ve observed that there are a number of fundamental paradoxes about the nature of moral injury that are not captured in our current understanding.
