Moral injury: An overview of conceptual, definitional, assessment, and treatment issues

BT Litz, HE Walker - Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2025 - annualreviews.org
Moral injury (MI) is a potential clinical problem characterized by functionally impairing moral
emotions, beliefs, and behaviors as well as adverse beliefs about personal or collective …

How a strong measurement validity review can go astray: A look at and recommendations for future measurement-focused reviews

BA Murphy, JA Hall - Clinical Psychology Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Critical reviews of a test's measurement validity are valuable scientific contributions, yet
even strong reviews can be undermined by subtle problems in how evidence is compiled …

[HTML][HTML] Why are healthcare providers leaving their jobs? A convergent mixed-methods investigation of turnover intention among Canadian healthcare providers …

AM D'Alessandro-Lowe, A Brown, E Sullo… - Nursing Reports, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Staffing shortages across the healthcare sector pose a threat to the continuity
of the Canadian healthcare system in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era. We sought to …

Exposure to moral stressors and associated outcomes in healthcare workers: prevalence, correlates, and impact on job attrition

A Nazarov, CA Forchuk, SA Houle… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: Healthcare workers (HCWs) often experience morally challenging
situations in their workplaces that may contribute to job turnover and compromised well …

Triggers and factors associated with moral distress and moral injury in health and social care workers: A systematic review of qualitative studies

ES Beadle, A Walecka, AV Sangam, J Moorhouse… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Objective At some point in their career, many healthcare workers will experience
psychological distress associated with being unable to take morally or ethically correct …

Enhancing the utility of the moral injury experience Wheel: manualized applications for diverse contexts

WH Fleming, MA Smigelsky - Journal of religion and health, 2024 - Springer
Moral injury has emerged as an important construct for understanding the distress
experienced in the aftermath of a moral violation, initially among combat veterans and …

Moral Injury and Institutional Betrayal Among Cis Women and Sexual and Gender Minorities

SR Kondrath, EAB Brandt, K Campbell… - … Treatment Options in …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review paper addresses the betrayal-based moral injury
experiences of cis women and sexual and gender minorities (SGM). Since the experiences …

Past, present, and future of cognitive behavioral-based psychotherapies for moral injury

HE Walker, KP O'Donnell, BT Litz - Current Treatment Options in …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review In the last 15 years, there has been a burgeoning interest in
moral injury, particularly among veterans and in high-risk occupational contexts. Estimates …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges for the Moral Injury Construct

RA Bryant - Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2024 - karger.com
The review by Frankfurt and colleagues (this volume) regarding the construct of moral injury
(MI) provides a timely and thought-provoking summary of a topic which has attracted …

Enhancing Conceptual Clarity regarding the Construct of Moral Injury

S Frankfurt O'Brien, I Baptista… - Psychotherapy and …, 2024 - karger.com
Background: The construct of “moral injury” is used widely in the research literature and
media to broadly describe the impact of events involving perceived violations of one's sense …