Jennifer Sweeton – Moral Injury Following Traumatic Events: Working with Clients Who Have Violated Their Conscience
- Faculty:
- Jennifer Sweeton
- Duration:
- Approx. 2 Hours
- Copyright:
- Apr 12, 2021
Description
Outline
Moral Injury Defined
- Actions counter to an individual’s moral code
- Guilt and/or shame and/or self-blame
- Failure to act
- Psychological, social, behavioral, and spiritual impacts
- Who experiences moral injury
Why Moral Injury Happens
- Fight, flight, flee survival response
- Loss of context can change behavior (Abu Ghraib and torture)
- Acts of comission or omission in war
- The necessity of making fast, life-ordeath decisions in medical or other contexts (such as COVID)
How to Identify Moral Injury
- Moral Injury Events Scale (Nash et al., 2013)
- Moral Injury Questionnaire (Currier et al., 2015)
- Clinical interview
- Overlap with DSM-5™ PTSD symptoms
Addressing Moral Injury in Clinical Practice: Clinical Insights and the Latest Research
- Guilt vs. shame
- Effective strategies for working through guilt
- Prolonged Exposure, EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Impact of Killing Treatment Program (Maguen et al., 2017)
- Trauma-Informed Guilt Reduction (Norman et al., 2014)
- Research and treatment limitations and risks
Faculty
Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D., M.S., M.A. Related seminars and products: 12
Organizational Consultant, Clinical Psychologist
Mind Works Professional Education Inc
Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and internationally-recognized expert on trauma, anxiety, and the neuroscience of mental health. Dr. Sweeton has been practicing EMDR for nearly a decade and has treated a variety of populations using EMDR and other memory reconsolidation approaches, including combat veterans, individuals with PTSD and complex trauma, and those suffering from treatment-resistant anxiety.
She completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD. Additionally, she holds a master’s degree in affective neuroscience from Stanford University, and studied behavioral genetics at Harvard University.
Dr. Sweeton resides in the greater Kansas City area, where she owns a group private practice, Kansas City Mental Health Associates. She is a past president of the Oklahoma Psychological Association and holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She is the president-elect of the Greater Kansas City Psychological Association. Dr. Sweeton offers psychological services to clients in Oklahoma, Kansas, and internationally, and is a sought-after trauma and neuroscience expert who has trained thousands of mental health professionals in her workshops.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Sweeton is in private practice. She has an employment relationship with the Oklahoma City VAMC. Dr. Sweeton receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Jennifer Sweeton has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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