Many of the symptoms experienced by traumatised individuals are not sufficiently captured by the existing ICD-11/DSM 5 criterion for PTSD, particularly when those symptoms include feelings of shame/ guilt, loneliness, social isolation, fear of…
Background and aims: Some professionals, such as military service members or first responders, deal with morally challenging situations on a day-to-day basis. Moral injury is a relatively new concept that refers to the psychosocial consequences of…
The enduring nature of PTSD within military and veteran communities suggests a link between mental illness and moral trauma/injury. Moral trauma/ injury is a transgression which violates our core assumptions of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, values, beliefs,…
An examination of EMDR with military populations entails consideration of the specific methods and challenges that clinicians encounter when using EMDR with the serving armed forces population. This chapter reviews the phenomenon of military mental…
ObjectiveFrontline mental health, emergency, law enforcement, and social workers have faced unprecedented psychological distress in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the RCT (Randomized Controls Trial) study was to investigate the…
In recent years the concept of Moral Injury has morphed from its origins as a descriptor of the damage done to warrior's psyches after serving in a combat zone during forward operations, to be one embraced by civilians to replace traumatic stress.…
The effectiveness of EMDR therapy in treating veterans diagnosed with PTSD was evaluated in this study using two treatment formats: intensive daily EMDR treatment provided twice a day during a 10-day period and a second format of one session each…
EMDR Therapy has and will continue to play a significant role in healing combat trauma. Trauma and Resiliency Resources will present a single case study describing our EMDR Therapy Protocol for WC® (twice-daily/ successive days) that adheres to the…
This presentation will describe an in-depth case review of the treatment of a Gulf War Marine Veteran whose symptoms of combat trauma had been ineffectively treated for over 15 years. The co-presenter, Fr. (Cpt.) Sean Levine, Military Chaplain, US…
