Moral Injury Family Workshop
Sept. 28th, 2023 4:30p-7:30p
We’re hosting a day to delve into Moral Injury. This IS NOT PTSD.
Moral injury is a common occurrence among service members and first responders, yet we are just beginning to understand it. One thing we know for sure: it is easier to tackle with an informed support system. Please join Harris County VSD and our partners for an evening of education for service members, veterans, first responders, and their families. Let‘s tackle moral injury together!
September 28th, 2023 | 4:30pm - 7:30pm CST
East Aldine Town Center
2902 East Aldine Amphitheatre Drive, Houston, Texas 77039
An act of transgression that create dissonance and conflict because it
violates assumptions and beliefs about what is right and wrong and personal goodness. (Litz, 2009)
Who should attend?
Service members, veterans, and first responders
Their family members or other caregivers
Anyone who cares for service members, veterans, or first responders.
What is Moral Injury?
...regarding the experience of war [and military service], “moral injury” refers to the lasting emotional, psychological, social, behavioral, and spiritual impacts of actions that violate a service member’s core moral values and behavioral expectations of self or others (Litz et al., 2009).
The Taliban would pay families to strap suicide bombs onto their children (especially those mentally impaired) to blow up U.S. and Coalition Soldiers and Marines.
The idea was that the children could get in closer to the bomb’s effective range when it forced the Soldier or Marine to pause before shooting a child.
U.S. Soldiers and Marines would have to shoot those child suicide bombers as they approached.
Aviators dropped a napalm bomb on a village that had been attacked and occupied by North Vietnamese forces.
The aviators mistook a group of friendly forces and civilians as enemy troops, burning the little girl in the image, and killing four civilians (two of which were the girl's cousins)
As a trained combat aviator, you just dropped dangerous ordnance to kill and maim innocent civilians.
Past Presentations
Thank you to our guest speaker Dr. Zackary Moon for presenting at our Moral Injury Symposium on October 26th, 2022!
Dr. Zachary Moon
Professor of Theology and Psychology, University of Chicago
