by Susan Sganga, Public Health Specialist This is a community of practice aimed at helping people to recover their sense of self-worth. The goal is for practitioners to talk, ask questions, interact, and help each other to learn and grow. With a subscription cost of $25 per month, participants receive 2 books, CEUs, and aContinue reading “Post-Session Summary of Healers, Episode 1: Repairing Self-Esteem”
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Lyceum at Wingate University
Dr. Roberts talks to students at Wingate University during the Lyceum event. Agenda
Healers, Episode 1: Repairing Self-Esteem
Learning Objectives
By the end of this videocast, participants will be able to:
1. Define moral injury.
2. Describe how it affects people’s self-esteem.
3. Explain ways chaplains, psychologists, social workers, and other caregivers can help a person rebuild their self-esteem.
To actively participate in these episodes, subscribe at: https://chaplainconsultants.com/product/monthly-network-subscription/.
Interview with Dr. Roberts about Moral Injury and MISNS’ Support to Servicewomen
Interview with Dr. Roberts about Moral Injury and MISNS’ Support to Servicewomen
Healers, Episode 1: Repairing Self-Esteem
People who experience a morally injurious event, such as a sexual assault, toxic leadership, body objectification, and various forms of betrayal often loose their self-esteem. They begin to see themselves as a worthless human. What they spent a life time building, their self-worth, can be lost in an instant of tragedy. Some people never hadContinue reading “Healers, Episode 1: Repairing Self-Esteem”
What is the Tubman Chaplain Network About and Who Can Benefit from It
During my 20+ years in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps, I provided emotional and spiritual support to many military women, recruited chaplains into the service, and conducted two research projects aimed at exploring chaplain support to servicewomen, both from the female and male chaplains’ perspectives. In the process, I learned a few things: Nine outContinue reading “What is the Tubman Chaplain Network About and Who Can Benefit from It”
BOOK REVIEW: THE SOLDIER’S GUIDE TO PTSD, A NO-SH!T GUIDE TO RECLAIMING YOUR LIFE by Virginia Cruse
What I Loved About This Book In this book, Virginia Cruse, a licensed professional counselor and combat veteran, covers a very serious subject – PTSD – in a way that is easy to read and understand. You don’t have to be a professional counselor to get it. In fact, this book was written for veterans,Continue reading “BOOK REVIEW: THE SOLDIER’S GUIDE TO PTSD, A NO-SH!T GUIDE TO RECLAIMING YOUR LIFE by Virginia Cruse”
The Many Tentacles of Moral Injury
While the term moral injury (MI) was originally envisioned to address the gap between PTSD and what Vietnam veterans were experiencing after returning from the war, our understanding of the phenomenon has grown (Shay, 2014). Due to recent scholarly work in the fields of servicewomen, healthcare, social work, and many others, we now know thatContinue reading “The Many Tentacles of Moral Injury”
A Very Important Book
In the spring of 2019, I was conducting some phone interviews as part of a ground-breaking research project. The study focused on the moral injurious experiences of women veterans, and the data was very disturbing. As someone who has worked in the U.S. military chaplain corps for many years, I realized that many chaplains didContinue reading “A Very Important Book”
Why We Need a Conference for Women Veterans and Clergy Men
As a man myself, and someone who served in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps for 18 years, I can honestly say that I had no idea how difficult it was to serve as a woman in the military. Four years ago I began to get a clue and it was very disturbing. In 20I6, IContinue reading “Why We Need a Conference for Women Veterans and Clergy Men”