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Digital Seminar

Moral Injury Interventions for Suicide Prevention: Techniques to Shift Clients Out of Shame


Speaker:
Wyatt R. Evans, PhD, ABPP
Duration:
1 Hour
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 12, 2024
Product Code:
POS059733
Media Type:
Digital Seminar

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Description

A thwarted sense of belongingness, beliefs about oneself as unworthy, contemptible, or unforgiveable feed hopelessness and foster a perception of burdensomeness that are well-known risk factors for suicide. This session featuring Dr. Wyatt Evans will introduce a conceptualization of suicide in the context of moral injury. You’ll get key processes and example procedures for facilitating moral healing that supports caregivers in making (re)connections and preventing suicide.  

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Wyatt R. Evans, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed and board-certified psychologist who specializes in moral injury theory, assessment, and interventions. He is a staff psychologist with the VA North Texas Health Care System and assistant professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Evans’ expertise in posttraumatic stress, resilience, and recovery comes from his training and work in military treatment facilities, veterans affairs hospitals, and PTSD research institutions. He is lead author of The Moral Injury Workbook and founded the Moral Injury Special Interest Group of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). Dr. Evans has consulted with healthcare providers and administrators as well as organizations supporting emergency managers and first responders to support the recognition, prevention, and treatment of moral injury.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Wyatt Evans maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the United States Army Reserve, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the VA North Texas Health Care System, William Woods University, Plano Mental Health Clinic, and Central Texas College. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Evans receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Wyatt Evans is a member of the American Board of Professional Psychology, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is an examiner for the American Board of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Evans is a reviewer for several peer review journals, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc.


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Objectives

  1. Evaluate the presence of moral injury for suicidal clients.  
  2. Utilize cognitive defusion tools to assist clients with responding to beliefs about the self subsequent to morally injurious experiences.  
  3. Identify clients’ values to guide them in healing after morally injurious events. 

Outline

Suffering & Suicide in Moral Injury  

  • Identify morally injurious events, transgressions, and betrayal  
  • Understand suicide as it relates to isolation in moral injury  

Responding to Moral Pain  

  • Understand how the relationship to moral pain can cause suffering  
  • Cultivate awareness, openness, self-compassion, and other more workable responses to moral pain 

Processes and Procedures for Moral Healing  

  • Identify evidence-based processes of moral healing  
  • Develop skills for establishing willingness to live with vitality amid moral pain and to (re)engage values as guideposts for meaningful action 

Limitations of Research and Potential Risks 

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professionals 
  • Case Managers 
  • Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors 
  • Marriage & Family Therapists 
  • Nurses 
  • Psychologists 
  • Social Workers 

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