Healing Veteran Moral Injury: Using Metaphor and Story to Foster Hope and Connection
Autor Pat Pernicano, Kerry Haynesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2025
Grounded in evidence-based practice and replete with clear, down-to-earth examples that foster empathy and understanding, Healing Veteran Moral Injury illustrates the ways in which building a sense of community can help restore trust and meaning. Each chapter illustrates the power of stories and metaphors and helps veterans identify strategies for healing moral injury and for posttraumatic growth. Clinicians and veterans will come away from this book with tools for building connection, for accepting what they cannot change, and for developing a more accurate perception of responsibility.
Healing Veteran Moral Injury is intended both for mental health professionals and for veterans themselves as a tool for breaking the silence, for pointing other veterans toward hope and healing, and for telling stories of moral pain with fortitude and courage.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032789699
ISBN-10: 1032789697
Pagini: 186
Ilustrații: 48
Dimensiuni: 210 x 280 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032789697
Pagini: 186
Ilustrații: 48
Dimensiuni: 210 x 280 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
1. Moral Pain and Moral Injury 2. PTSD and Moral Injury: Overlapping Symptoms and Different Meanings 3. Meaning Making Through Story and Metaphor 4. Dealing with the Spiritual in Moral Injury 5. Forgiving Self and Others 6. Models of Healing for Moral Injury 7. Beginning the Journey of Acceptance and Forgiveness 8. Processing the Impact of Moral Injury 9. Re-thinking Guilt, Blame, and Responsibility 10. Practising Confession and Forgiveness 11. The Healing of Sharing Your Story 12. Stories and Metaphors for Restoring Wholeness 13. Post-traumatic Growth and Continuing the Journey 14. Conclusion with AFT Program Data
Recenzii
“Moral injury always occurs in a relational context. As such, it cannot be healed in a vacuum; rather, the presence of safe, supportive, and—importantly—benevolent relationships where acceptance, forgiveness, and repair can occur are essential. Marrying their vast knowledge of moral injury and the use of metaphors in psychotherapy, the authors have created a unique text to illuminate the sometimes long and windy road to recovery from potentially morally injurious events. Pernicano and Haynes offer mental health clinicians, Veterans, family members, and individuals touched by MI a roadmap for understanding the multi-layered impact of potentially morally injurious events. They do so by utilizing the amazing power of metaphor—a tool with a long history in psychotherapy and increasingly recognized as invaluable in working with trauma. In helping individuals re-story their experiences, metaphors serve as a conduit of human connection and a vehicle of change. This book is as enlightening as it is practical, and a must-read for anyone whose life has been impacted by moral injury.”
Valentina Stoycheva, PhD, co-author of The Unconscious: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications, co-chair, Moral Injury Special Interest Group, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
“Years ago, I volunteered as a hospital chaplain near Atlanta, Georgia. One day I visited a World War II veteran facing a dire physical diagnosis. He was near death, but the elderly man asked a profoundly moral question. He pleaded “Will God forgive me for what I did during the war?” He revealed a secret that had tormented him for decades. The pain on his face was evident as his stoic features softened. He said he had killed a surrendering German sailor. He had obeyed orders but now carried a moral injury from what he had done as a frightened young soldier.I was an untrained, recent seminary graduate and new pastor. I was unequipped to help him other than recite my confessional and Scriptural beliefs. I had no tools to offer him comfort. I needed this book then; it is what I wish I could have provided to that unnamed man decades ago. I am so thankful for this new but ancient way of bringing healing to moral injury.
Ray Woolridge, brigadier general, US Army (retired) and co-author of Escaping Enemy Mode: How Our Brains Unite or Divide Us
“As a combat veteran, woman, Latina, and sexual-assault survivor, I saw myself throughout the pages and walked away awe-struck by the realness of it all. In many ways, this book parallels my journey to wellness from trauma and moral injury. The authors authentically describe real veteran experiences, acknowledge, and affirm our struggle and resilience; most importantly, they provide a pathway towards healing. I saw my healing journey play out countless times in each veteran story. The metaphor, stories, art, and writing brought me back from a dark saturated type of emotional and physical pain into a fuller life in the light.”
Lisa Carrington Firmin, colonel, US Air Force (retired), and award-winning author of Stories from the Front: Pain, Betrayal, and Resilience on the MST Battlefield and Latina Warrior
“The authors, drawing on vivid personal stories from veterans and their extensive professional experience, offer readers a wealth of useful strategies such as storytelling, imagination, and collective engagement to support recovery from moral injury.”
Rita Nakashima Brock, PhD, senior vice president for moral injury recovery programs, Volunteers of America
“This book is an up-to-date overview of the field and a guide for treating moral injury through group therapy, writing, and art-making. The authors’ compassion and clinical rigor shine through from page one as they draw on decades of moral injury research and treatment. In addition to providing a thorough understanding of moral injury, the innovative treatment techniques developed by the authors comprise a proven step-by-step process for helping veterans heal. Dozens of gripping veteran testimonials offer a rare insight into the realities of combat and military service and describe many of the ways that those who serve can suffer life-long trauma. This is a valuable and thought-provoking resource for seasoned practitioners, lay persons, and students alike.”
Scott Sinkler, director of the documentary Absolutions: War and Moral Injury
“Healing Veteran Moral Injury delivers an innovative and impactful recipe for healing that supports, educates, instills hope and dignity, and offers a path to forgiveness for those struggling with moral injury. Pernicano and Haynes use captivating examples that connect the reader to the introduced concepts while honoring veteran stories. This book provides a voice that academic texts and treatment manuals often lack.”
Ashley Casto, PsyD, HSP, licensed clinical psychologist
“Building on their combined decades of clinical experience in mental health care and chaplaincy, Pernicano and Haynes offer an approach that integrates forgiveness and acceptance with storytelling in various forms to address the suffering of moral injury, pointing the way to what is possible when mental health and spiritual care professionals collaborate.”
Keith G. Meador, MD, ThM, MPH, Anne Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Vanderbilt University and professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt Divinity School
Valentina Stoycheva, PhD, co-author of The Unconscious: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications, co-chair, Moral Injury Special Interest Group, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
“Years ago, I volunteered as a hospital chaplain near Atlanta, Georgia. One day I visited a World War II veteran facing a dire physical diagnosis. He was near death, but the elderly man asked a profoundly moral question. He pleaded “Will God forgive me for what I did during the war?” He revealed a secret that had tormented him for decades. The pain on his face was evident as his stoic features softened. He said he had killed a surrendering German sailor. He had obeyed orders but now carried a moral injury from what he had done as a frightened young soldier.I was an untrained, recent seminary graduate and new pastor. I was unequipped to help him other than recite my confessional and Scriptural beliefs. I had no tools to offer him comfort. I needed this book then; it is what I wish I could have provided to that unnamed man decades ago. I am so thankful for this new but ancient way of bringing healing to moral injury.
Ray Woolridge, brigadier general, US Army (retired) and co-author of Escaping Enemy Mode: How Our Brains Unite or Divide Us
“As a combat veteran, woman, Latina, and sexual-assault survivor, I saw myself throughout the pages and walked away awe-struck by the realness of it all. In many ways, this book parallels my journey to wellness from trauma and moral injury. The authors authentically describe real veteran experiences, acknowledge, and affirm our struggle and resilience; most importantly, they provide a pathway towards healing. I saw my healing journey play out countless times in each veteran story. The metaphor, stories, art, and writing brought me back from a dark saturated type of emotional and physical pain into a fuller life in the light.”
Lisa Carrington Firmin, colonel, US Air Force (retired), and award-winning author of Stories from the Front: Pain, Betrayal, and Resilience on the MST Battlefield and Latina Warrior
“The authors, drawing on vivid personal stories from veterans and their extensive professional experience, offer readers a wealth of useful strategies such as storytelling, imagination, and collective engagement to support recovery from moral injury.”
Rita Nakashima Brock, PhD, senior vice president for moral injury recovery programs, Volunteers of America
“This book is an up-to-date overview of the field and a guide for treating moral injury through group therapy, writing, and art-making. The authors’ compassion and clinical rigor shine through from page one as they draw on decades of moral injury research and treatment. In addition to providing a thorough understanding of moral injury, the innovative treatment techniques developed by the authors comprise a proven step-by-step process for helping veterans heal. Dozens of gripping veteran testimonials offer a rare insight into the realities of combat and military service and describe many of the ways that those who serve can suffer life-long trauma. This is a valuable and thought-provoking resource for seasoned practitioners, lay persons, and students alike.”
Scott Sinkler, director of the documentary Absolutions: War and Moral Injury
“Healing Veteran Moral Injury delivers an innovative and impactful recipe for healing that supports, educates, instills hope and dignity, and offers a path to forgiveness for those struggling with moral injury. Pernicano and Haynes use captivating examples that connect the reader to the introduced concepts while honoring veteran stories. This book provides a voice that academic texts and treatment manuals often lack.”
Ashley Casto, PsyD, HSP, licensed clinical psychologist
“Building on their combined decades of clinical experience in mental health care and chaplaincy, Pernicano and Haynes offer an approach that integrates forgiveness and acceptance with storytelling in various forms to address the suffering of moral injury, pointing the way to what is possible when mental health and spiritual care professionals collaborate.”
Keith G. Meador, MD, ThM, MPH, Anne Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Vanderbilt University and professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt Divinity School
Notă biografică
Pat Pernicano, PsyD, holds a doctorate in clinical of psychology degree from Baylor University. Her writing, teaching, and clinical work reflect her passion for trauma-informed healing with children, families, and veterans.
Kerry Haynes, DMin, is a retired mental health chaplain at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, an Army Reserves chaplain, and a pastor. His doctor of ministry work focused on group services for veteran moral injury.
Kerry Haynes, DMin, is a retired mental health chaplain at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, an Army Reserves chaplain, and a pastor. His doctor of ministry work focused on group services for veteran moral injury.
Descriere
Healing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.