Moral injury and social work
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Moral injury is impacting on social workers at a really alarming rate. The environments that we work in and the policies that we are expeceted to implement can cut across our values and leave us 'injured.' This video explores what moral injury is, why it happens and how we can address it.
Like doing a student social work placement for 500 hours in a nursing home and spending my days playing bingo, flower arranging etc.
Love anytime moral injury is discussed, since it rarely is. This is an interesting focus on social workers. I am not one, but I am a client, who has been traumatized, in a way that I came to discover what moral injury is, what the situations include, and specific impacts on people like me. I just heard you mention "permission to talk about it", and that's an important point, because when you are not able to bring up this disconnect in ethics, personal and professional values, it actually has the impact of moral injury on people whose values are dismissed, with some justification that dismissed it. Thank you for this vid and the perspective on moral injury that could broaden a real discussion about it. What is truly a man of compassion and intelligence, but his work has been stepped on, tweaked and often used in inappropriate ways that have sometimes defended some of the factors that contribute to it.
Moral injury is real. It's important, and it's specific to understand the factors present in a situation that can lead to a clients specific pain, and really requires specific types of approaches that can help them heal. The approach to healing must always include a recognition of these value violations (to ones core beliefs), and then work through solutions that provide a sense of "justice" (key need) to restore them in a way that gives them the respect for the importance of that. It's akin to stealing someone's dignity, versus focusing on what coping skills someone needs to learn. The latter is almost an insult if it does not address the serious assault, in terms of a person's inherent dignity as somewhat sacred.
Thanks.
"Shay" not what, is the typo. Jonathon Shay, great man.
Like being trained on a 2 year masters course, which didn't do enough theory OR practical, and then being instrumental in applying justice... luckily I feel quite supported and reflected but it could be really dangerous really quickly this job
Love all these metaphors