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Moral Injury: A Psycho, Social, and Spiritual Wound

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1.5 CE Hour On Demand
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Description

What occurs when someone endures extremely stressful situations that go against their moral and ethical principles? How does one interpret what happened, why it happened, and what it implies for their future moral compass and well-being? Most potentially morally harmful experiences don’t always constitute a threat to life, in contrast to post-traumatic stress disorder, which can develop after trauma based on threat. By exploring one’s faith and strongly held convictions as they are threatened by morally repugnant circumstances. Moral damage is not regarded as a mental health condition, however, exposure to potentially morally harmful situations can result in severe feelings of guilt and shame, as well as changes in thoughts and beliefs (such as “I am a failure” or “colleagues don’t care about me”) and lead to maladaptive coping mechanisms (such as substance abuse, social disengagement, or self-destructive behavior). By examining key aspects and complex dynamics of moral injury, its relationship with substance use, and the influences moral injury may have on treatment and long-term recovery.

Target Audience
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Nurse
  • • Physician
  • • Social Worker
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
  • • Psychologist
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to examine key aspects and complex dynamics of moral injury, its relationship with substance use, and the influences moral injury may have on treatment and long-term recovery.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Identify at least 3 ethical considerations in treatment.

  • Explain how to integrate interdisciplinary and community-based resources for ongoing support.

  • Summarize the influence and implications of moral injury in substance use treatment and recovery.

  • Identify 2 assessment tools to identify moral injury in substance users.

References

  • Koenig HG, Al Zaben F. Moral Injury: An Increasingly Recognized and Widespread Syndrome. J Relig Health. 2021 Oct;60(5):2989-3011. doi: 10.1007/s10943-021-01328-0. Epub 2021 Jul 10. PMID: 34245433; PMCID: PMC8270769.

  • Currier, J. M., Drescher, K. D., & Nieuwsma, J. (2021). Introduction to moral injury. In J. M. Currier, K. D. Drescher, & J. Nieuwsma (Eds.), Addressing moral injury in clinical practice (pp. 3–18). American Psychological Association.

  • Čartolovni A, Stolt M, Scott PA, Suhonen R. Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion. Nurs Ethics. 2021 Aug;28(5):590-602. doi: 10.1177/0969733020966776. Epub 2021 Jan 11. PMID: 33427020; PMCID: PMC8366182.

  • Molendijk, T., Verkoren, W., Drogendijk, A., Elands, M., Kramer, E. H., Smit, A., & Verweij, D. (2022). Contextual dimensions of moral injury: An interdisciplinary review. Military Psychology, 34(6), 742–753. https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2022.2035643

General
Counselor

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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 mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

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.

Nurse

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 1.5 ANCC contact hours.

Physician

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Professions in scope for this activity are listed below. Amedco Joint Accreditation Provider Number: 4008163. Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 General continuing education credits. ASWB ACE Credit is not available in NY and NJ.

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.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

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.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 programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical, and Professional Development

Psychologist

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

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LEPs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. 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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Mell McCracken CADC II, ASAT, RAE

Mell McCracken serves as the Executive Director for No Matter What recovery center in Los Angeles, California. Mell is a fierce advocate for healing and transformation through substance abuse counseling, sex addiction therapy, and treatment program development. They have nearly a decade of experience and extensive expertise in empowering individuals to overcome their struggles with addiction, mental health, and navigating the complexities of chemsex in the queer community. Mell is nationally and internationally recognized as a certified LGBT+ educator, co-author, and treatment provider. They also serve as a faculty member at the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Specialists.

Kathleen Murphy, M.A., LMFT

With a career spanning over three and a half decades, Kathleen Murphy has dedicated her professional life to serving individuals grappling with relational and traumatic wounding complicated by substance use. She has been with Breathe Life Healing Center for over ten years and is currently is in private practice while simultaneously serving as the founding Chief Clinical Officer of Breathe Life Healing Center in Los Angeles.

Kathleen was also privileged to be Clinical Director of ONSITE Workshops- and was especially involved in supervising clinicians and deeply involved in the trauma workshop. She also had the opportunity to deepen her experiential group therapy skills at both the profound Breakthrough at Caron program in Wernersville Pa. and the Meadows in Wickenburg Az., where she had the privilege of being Supervised by Pia Mellody. Her history includes seven years working with families and individuals impacted by sexual assault and interpersonal violence while working at SAFE-PLACE in Austin, Texas. Her crisis intervention skills were also enhanced by volunteering with the Austin Police department’s Victim Services.

Kathleen’s work has been informed by a variety of practices and modalities such as Polyvagal theory, Buddhist Psychotherapy and other contemplative informed practices such as Trauma Sensitive and compassion based practices, Hakomi, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, IFS, AEDP, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Gestalt. She loves to participate with clients and colleagues alike in all kinds of polemics, dyadics and didactics. She regularly conducts psychoeducation, lectures and experiential group processes that are heavily influenced by attachment theory as well as psychodramatic techniques to assist clients in reframing and reclaiming the self as a being in relationship.

Her path was paved by earning her BA in Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Texas, at Austin and an MA in Counseling at St Edward’s University.  She has a love of puppets, Kundalini Yoga, Sound Healing, Tibetan Buddhism, and all the various wisdom traditions.

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