When a client experiences a moral injury, the guilt, sadness, and shame that come with it can be debilitating. It can create a deep wound at the center of a person’s identity.
So how can you help a client who’s suffering from a moral injury begin to heal?
In the video below, Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD will walk you through the approach she used with a first responder to help him process his actions at the scene of a car accident. Have a look.
Now we’d like to hear from you – what approaches have you found useful when working with moral injury? What do you find helpful for working with shame? Please let us know by leaving a comment.
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This is one of my biggest takeaways from attending these webinars on trauma. The issue of integration of different parts of self as a vehicle for healing.
Dr Ruth Lanois to helped me a great deal with her interpretation about the dilemma of first responder.
I am a Holocaust educated and was asked recently about the silence of the survivors for decades about their experiences.
The answer was given in her approach.When one is in survival mode, empathy even toward self is dormant.All psychic energy has to focus on just simply making it everyday.
Many thanks
I talk about the concept of integration with my clients, and the importance of integrating all parts of oneself. I like to approach it that it isn’t all one way (e.g. all bad or all good) but that, as humans, we are part of a collective whole- working to recognize, acknowledge, and respect all parts of ourselves, understanding that each part plays an important role.
This is very helpful and interesting explanation about the importance of staying centered. Thank you for sharing.
How interesting to acknowledge thet we have different parts of “self” that can be in oposition with one another in difficult situations. Thanks for the oportunity to learn more.