ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
The Role of Moral Injury in PTSD Among Law Enforcement Officers: A Brief Report.
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- Effects of Short Video App Guided Mindfulness Meditation on Policemen's Communication Anxiety, PTSD, Anger Management, and Mood Disorders.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- The contribution of moral injury to Israeli teachers' mental health difficulties: the mediating role of shame and guilt.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Enhancing the Utility of the Moral Injury Experience Wheel: Manualized Applications for Diverse Contexts.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- "DV Fatigue": Work Stress and Officers' Attitudes and Performance at Domestic and Family Violence Incidents.Violence against women · 2024Article
- Moral injury, race-related stress and post-traumatic stress disorder in a trauma-exposed Black population.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Moral injury appraisals and posttraumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed police officers: a latent class analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- The privilege and the pressure: judges' and magistrates' reflections on the sources and impacts of stress in judicial work.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2024Article
- Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A State-of-the-art Review.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Review
- Protecting the Protectors: Moral Injury, Coping Styles, and Mental Health of UK Police Officers and Staff Investigating Child Sexual Abuse Material.Depression and anxiety · 2024Article
- Towards a Holistic Model of Care for Moral Injury: An Australian and New Zealand Investigation into the Role of Police Chaplains in Supporting Police Members following exposure to Moral Transgression.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- 'Against everything that got you into the job': experiences of potentially morally injurious events among Canadian public safety personnel.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Predict, prevent and manage moral injuries in Canadian frontline healthcare workers and leaders facing the COVID-19 pandemic: Protocol of a mixed methods study.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
- Families' experiences of supporting Australian veterans and emergency service first responders (ESFRs) to seek help for mental health problems.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
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Abstract
Exposure to critical incidents and hence potentially traumatic events is endemic in law enforcement. The study of law enforcement officers' experience of moral injury and their exposure to potentially morally injurious incidents, and research on moral injury's relationship with different forms of traumatization (e.g. compassion fatigue, post-traumatic stress disorder) are in their infancy. The present study aims to build on prior research and explores the role of moral injury in predicting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its clusters thereof. To this end, a sample of law enforcement officers (
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