Blog posts with the tag "Staff Perspective"

A few months ago, I was treating a patient with PTSD, but after greater exploration of his distress, which included guilt, shame, and feeling betrayed by his military boss, we fleshed out that moral injury was a salient part of his clinical picture. Currently, there is no consensus in the field on the exact definition of moral injury, but one I like refers to it as “enduring psychosocial and spiritual harms following exposures to high-stakes events that involve transgressions of one’s deeply held moral convictions or beliefs of right and wrong through one’s own or others’ action or inaction, or perceived betrayal by those in positions of authority or trust” (Phelps et al., 2022).

Like many of us who are tasked with writing blogs, we sign up without a second thought, not realizing how quickly the time seems to pass. When I finally sat down to compose my blog, putting ideas to paper, I received a call that rocked me to the core. In that moment, I contemplated whether to share the recent agonizing grief of our family with the world, until I quickly realized that the city of Chicago and its multiple channels of communication (Facebook, live streaming, and local news channels) had already done just that.