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Veteran Patient and VA Clinician Perspectives on Healing from Moral Injury

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1 CE Hour On Demand
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Description

“Moral injury” describes the biopsychosocial distress and impairment that results from high magnitude events that involve violations of right and wrong (i.e., moral injury events). Moral injury may be an increasingly common treatment target / goal in VA mental health clinics, however there are few guidelines or evidence-based treatments for moral injury. This talk will review qualitative data summarizing Veteran patients’ and VA mental health clinicians’ and chaplains’ perspectives on recovering from moral injury, including preferred treatment targets, facilitators and barriers to engaging in or providing moral injury treatment – with a particular focus on group therapy for moral injury.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase understanding of moral injury and moral injury treatment.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify two facilitators and two barriers for moral injury treatment.

  • Describe three patient preferences and three VA mental health clinician and chaplain preferences for moral injury treatment.

  • Discuss three self care strategies for coping with the impact of providing moral injury treatment.

References
  • Evans, W.R., Smigelsky, M.A., Frankfurt, S.B., Antal, C.J., Yeomans, P.D., Check, C., & Bhatt-Mackin, S.M. (In press; 2023, August). Emerging interventions for moral injury: Expanding pathways to moral healing. Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry.

  • Frankfurt, S., Coady, A., Grunthal, B., Larew-Ellickson, S., & Litz, B. (2019). Moral injury in service members and veterans. In U. Kumar (Ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Military Psychology and Mental Health. Oxford: Taylor & Francis.

  • Frankfurt, S., DeBeer, B., Morissette, S., Kimbrel, N., La Bash, H., & Meyer, E. (2018). Mechanisms of moral injury following military sexual trauma and combat in post-9/11 U.S. war veterans. Frontiers in Psychiatry. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00520

Introductory
Clinical
Counselors

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Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

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Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

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Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by APA Division 18: Psychologists in Public Service. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Sheila Frankfurt, Ph.D., LP

Dr. Sheila Frankfurt, Ph.D., LP is a psychologist and investigator at the Department of Veterans Affairs VISN17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans in Waco, TX. Her research focuses on better understanding moral injury, developing a novel group therapy treatment for moral injury, and suicide prevention initiatives. She is currently supported by a Career Development Award – 2, funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Service.

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