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Supporting Spiritual Crisis in Veterans

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Monday, March 17, 2025 9am to 5pm ET (New York City Time) FREE–Attend live or virtually Info/Registration: https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/veteran_wellbeing_resilience Veterans, active service men and women, and first responders are often faced with moral distress when they experience something which conflicts with their morals or ethics. For example, someone in the infantry is ordered to kill a

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency DSM, Harvard, human flourishing, moral distress, moral injury, moral problem, suicide, veterans

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency by Emma Bragdon, PhD Joshua Mantz, (above), fresh out of West Point Academy, was a second lieutenant in the army deployed in 2006 to a dangerous zone in Baghdad, Iraq, at age 23. Within months he was shot by a sniper, almost bled to death, and flatlined for 15 minutes

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