Spirituality and Moral Injury Among Military Personnel: A Mini-Review

ConclusionSpirituality underlies many of the experiences of MI, including changes in identity, meaning making, social supports, and MI symptoms. The findings of this mini-review highlight the need to consider a person’s spiritual fitness and health throughout military service and during treatment of MI and examine how spirituality can be fostered to help build resilience and reduce the risk of MI (17). While acknowledging the limited quality of evidence, encouraging military members and veterans to draw on S/R resources and practices may be a salve to psychospiritual distress. Integration of spirituality as a bona fide modality seems timely. Although much of the literature agreed that spirituality is important for the treatment of MI, more research is needed to understand how to effectively incorporate it into treatment to facilitate healing of MI among military members and veterans.Author ContributionsFS and SB-P collected the materials and resources needed for this review. SB-P, FS, and AP analyzed the data. FS and SB-P wrote this article, AP and TC provided subject matter expertise and reviewed and revised each draft of the manuscript.FundingThis work was supported by Veterans Affairs Canada, contract number OX170116741401P, and the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service, Department of National Defence. The funding sources had no involvement in the planning, conduction, or evaluation of this study.Conflict of Interest StatementThe authors declare that the research was cond...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research