Moral Distress
Explore the concept of moral distress and its implications on individuals and communities. Learn how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, an evidence-based treatment that has been shown to reduce moral distress, can help you.
Our Real Work
By Wendell Berry
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
If you would like to better understand how researchers are measuring moral injury, and how your experiences line up with research findings, click on the Moral Injury Outcome Scale button. This is one of the most robust measures of moral injury to date. While there are no identified cutoffs, the higher your score, the greater the level of moral injury. If you would like to, you could take this measure before the course, and then revisit it after the course, and see if anything shifted!
Litz, B. T., Plouffe, R. A., Nazarov, A., Murphy, D., Phelps, A., Coady, A., Houle, S. A., Dell, L., Frankfurt, S., Zerach, G., Levi-Belz, Y., & Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium (2022). Defining and Assessing the Syndrome of Moral Injury: Initial Findings of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Frontiers in psychiatry, 13, 923928. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.923928