MCDES – Pathways to Hope for Moral Injury & Other Invisible Wounds

The Minnesota Coalition for Death Education and Support (MCDES) is producing an all-day conference on May 5, 2017: "Pathways to Hope for Moral Injury & Other Invisible Wounds."
ObjectivesDescribe moral injury and related mental health traumas, e.g., PTSD.
Describe how forms of oppression relate to moral injury.
Identify and list resources, methods, and strategiesfor recovery through the arts, spiritual counseling, training, storytelling, and ritual processes.
Describe public lamentation for processing certain aspects of moral injury such as feelings of sorrow, betrayal, isolation, regret, and shame.
List strategies for educating and involving community organizations in working with those struggling with moral injury.
Identify and list strategies for turning greater national attention to moral injury and its impacts on physical and mental health in the larger society.

Schedule
What Moral Injury Is & What It Is Not◆ Different Definitions of Moral Injury◆ PTSD & Moral Injury◆ How it is Part of Many Kinds of Trauma◆ Dimensions of Loss & Grief in Moral Injury◆ How Perpetrator-Victim Framing Relates to Moral Responsibility for Harm
The Places & People Impacted by Moral Injury ◆ Moral Injury in Caregivers◆ Oppression as Context for Inescapable Moral Injury◆ Thinking about Suffering in Relation to Moral Injury◆ Individual & Collective Forms
Strategies for Individual & Community Recovery&...

Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs