Spiritual Wounds and Injuries (Part 1)

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Health and Social Care Chaplaincy Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI:10.1558/hscc.23758

M. Davies

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Abstract

Moral injury (MI) has become a significant area of study and debate with regard to veterans’ mental health and general well-being. Due to the nature and intensity of coalition operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over a prolonged period, MI has become one of the “signature wounds” of these conflicts. Spiritual damage is a critical aspect of the MI paradigm. For some people, exposure to complex and demanding environments and situations creates threats to their spiritual understanding and belief systems. These threats may be expressed through doubt about their beliefs surrounding the concept of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent divine creator. Such doubt, uncertainty and distress can negatively affect an individual’s overall mental health and well-being. This article seeks to achieve two objectives. The first is to introduce some of the history, language and concepts regarding MI, in order to enable spiritual care practitioners to participate in this crucial area of veterans’ health and well-being. This participation may include, but is not limited to, definitional research, language analysis, treatment and management. This study also serves as a starting point for a deeper discussion on whether spiritual damage is best described in a MI context, or whether a deeper analysis is needed independent of MI syndrome.

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属灵的创伤(上)

关于退伍军人的心理健康和总体福祉，道德伤害(MI)已经成为一个重要的研究和辩论领域。由于在伊拉克和阿富汗的长期联合行动的性质和强度，MI已成为这些冲突的“标志性伤口”之一。精神伤害是MI范式的一个关键方面。对一些人来说，接触复杂和苛刻的环境和情况会对他们的精神理解和信仰体系造成威胁。这些威胁可能是通过怀疑他们对无所不知、无所不能、仁慈的神性创造者概念的信仰来表达的。这种怀疑、不确定和痛苦会对个人的整体心理健康和福祉产生负面影响。本文旨在实现两个目标。首先是介绍一些历史，语言和概念关于精神分裂症，为了使精神护理从业者参与退伍军人的健康和福祉的这一关键领域。这种参与可能包括但不限于定义研究、语言分析、治疗和管理。这项研究也为更深层次的讨论提供了一个起点，即精神损害是否最好地描述在心肌梗死的背景下，或者是否需要独立于心肌梗死综合征进行更深层次的分析。

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Health and Social Care Chaplaincy Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

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期刊介绍： Health and Social Care Chaplaincy is a peer-reviewed, international journal that assists health and social care chaplains to explore the art and science of spiritual care within a variety of contexts. The journal was founded in 2013 through the merger of the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy (issn:1748-801X) and the Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy (issn:1463-9920) . It continues to be the official journal of the College of Health Care Chaplains and members of the society receive the journal as part of their annual membership. For more details on membership subscriptions, please click on the ''members'' button at the top of this page. Back issues of both previous journals are being loaded onto this website (see Archives) and online access to these back issues is included in all institutional subscriptions. Health and Social Care Chaplaincy is a multidisciplinary forum for the discussion of a range of issues related to the delivery of spiritual care across various settings: acute, paediatric, mental health, palliative care and community. It encourages a creative collaboration and interface between health and social care practitioners in the UK and internationally and consolidates different traditions of discourse and communication research in its commitment to an understanding of psychosocial, cultural and ethical aspects of healthcare in contemporary societies. It is responsive to both ecumenical and interfaith agendas as well as those from a humanist perspective.