Some Wounds Need Healing at the Spiritual Level

Sometimes psychological healing is not enough. A soldier, police officer, or health care worker may carry the weight of having acted against a deeply held moral belief. Fr. David Songy, PsyD, LP, defines moral injury and spiritual distress and explains why the clinician's role is to help clients look at their own moral experience, not to make moral judgments for them. He reviews established trauma therapies, including spiritually integrated cognitive processing therapy, then turns to the Catholic understanding of forgiveness, mercy, redemption, and conversion. You'll learn to work with sacred moral injury and to partner with priests and spiritual directors.

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What You’ll Learn


01

Define

Define moral injury, spiritual distress, and sacred moral injury, and explain how each differs from trauma that is psychological alone.

02

Describe

Describe how spiritually integrated cognitive processing therapy uses a client's spiritual and religious resources to address moral injury.

03

Integrate

Integrate Catholic teaching on forgiveness, mercy, redemption, and conversion into treatment, while respecting client autonomy and collaborating with priests or spiritual directors.

NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider

Continuing Education

0.75 NBCC contact hours · ACEP No. 7719 · Intermediate

The Elijah Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7719. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Elijah Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

To earn credit, participants watch the full presentation, pass the posttest with a score of 80% or higher, and complete the course evaluation. A certificate is issued on completion.

Curriculum

Watch the presentation, then complete the posttest and course evaluation to earn your certificate.

    1. Healing Spiritual Distress & Moral Injury 5 min read

    2. Catholic Psychotherapy for Spiritual Distress and Moral Injury 30 min video

    3. Test Your Knowledge - Spiritual Distress & Moral Injury

    4. Rate This Course - Catholic Psychotherapy for Spiritual Distress and Moral Injury

About this course

  • $50.00
  • 4 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content

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Accompany Clients Toward Deeper Healing · 0.75 NBCC contact hours · ACEP No. 7719 · Intermediate

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