Citation

Litz BT, Kerig PK. J. Trauma. Stress 2019; 32(3): 341-349.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/jts.22405

PMID

31162737

Abstract

This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Traumatic Stress devoted to new directions in the study of moral injury (MI), defined as transgressive harms and the outcomes of those experiences. Although a significant body of research has emerged devoted to the study of the MI construct, a number of conceptual and empirical challenges have arisen; these are summarized and discussed in the present article. In addition, this article proposes ways of overcoming these challenges in order to further research and clinical practice in the field. We then go on to introduce the content and themes of the present collection of articles in this special issue, all of which provide examples of some of the most innovative and forward-looking work on the topic and expand into new conceptual frameworks, new methods of investigation, and new populations and contexts.

© 2019 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

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