Moral Injury
Clue: This is the term for the damage done to one's conscience when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress their own values and beliefs.
Answer: What is a moral injury?
Clue: This term describes your overall sense of personal value.
Answer: What is self-worth?
Clue: These are negative, rigid thoughts that keep you from recovering after a traumatic event.
Answer: What are stuck points?
Clue: This is the first and most crucial step in being able to challenge a stuck point.
Answer: What is identifying or noticing the thought?
Clue: The goal of challenging a stuck point is to develop a new, more realistic one of these.
Answer: What is a balanced or alternative thought?
Clue: A hallmark emotion of moral injury, this feeling is often connected to an act you did or failed to do.
Answer: What is guilt or shame?
Clue: A common thought that harms esteem after a trauma is the belief that you are fundamentally this.
Answer: What is feeling "damaged" or "unworthy"?
Clue: Words like "always," "never," or "completely" are examples of this type of language often used in stuck points.
Answer: What is extreme or all-or-nothing thinking?
Clue: This technique involves looking for factual information that either supports or goes against your stuck point.
Answer: What is examining the evidence?
Clue: Letting go of blame for things that were outside of your control is a powerful act of this.
Answer: What is self-forgiveness?
Clue: Unlike the fear-based reaction common in PTSD, moral injury is based on the violation of these.
Answer: What are one's morals, values, or ethical beliefs?
Clue: This practice involves treating yourself with the same kindness and understanding you would offer to a good friend.
Answer: What is self-compassion?
Clue: "It was all my fault" is a classic example of a stuck point related to this.
Answer: What is self-blame?
Clue: This common therapy worksheet helps you see the link between an Activating event, your Beliefs about it, and the emotional Consequences.
Answer: What is an ABC Worksheet?
Clue: After a moral injury, taking actions that align with your personal values (like helping others) can be a form of this.
Answer: What are making amends or taking reparative action?
Clue: These are the three types of events that can cause moral injury: an act of commission (doing something wrong), an act of omission (failing to do something right), and this.
Answer: What is betrayal (by a leader or others)?
Clue: This action helps rebuild esteem by intentionally noticing and appreciating your positive qualities and successes.
Answer: What is recognizing your strengths?
Clue: An example of a stuck point is, "If I let people get close to me, I will be hurt," which is a belief that affects this.
Answer: What is trust?
Clue: This is a method where you (or a therapist) ask open-ended questions to explore and examine your own thinking patterns.
Answer: What is Socratic questioning?
Clue: This is the process of changing a belief from "The world is completely dangerous" to "The world has dangers, but I can take steps to be safe."
Answer: What is reframing?
Clue: Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, known for his work with veterans, described moral injury as this type of wound.
Answer: What is a "soul wound"?
Clue: According to Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), trauma commonly disrupts five key areas of life: safety, trust, power/control, intimacy, and this one.
Answer: What is esteem?
Clue: Stuck points are opinions or beliefs that are not 100% this.
Answer: What is a fact?
Clue: A key part of challenging blame is separating this, which is about your role in causing an outcome, from this, which is about the intent to cause harm.
Answer: What are responsibility and blame?
Clue: In CPT, the ultimate goal is not to forget the trauma, but to healthily change your worldview to incorporate the experience. This healthy change is called this.
Answer: What is accommodation?