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Moral Injury: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Interventions for Trauma, Guilt, Shame, and Anger

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Moral injury is the missing piece of trauma treatment...

And it’s dangerous to overlook.

Moral injury is the deep, soul-level pain that wreaks havoc under the surface of trauma. It’s the plague of guilt, shame, and anger that causes your clients to withdraw inside themselves... that makes their PTSD symptoms so much more impairing... that triggers life-threatening depression and self-destructive behaviors.

Whether your client faced the extreme betrayal and unjustified brutality of abuse, racism, or political violence... or was forced to be in a position of power making impossible decisions like military personnel, healthcare workers, and first responders do every day.

Trauma processing alone is not enough to address moral injury, and may make things worse.

Now is your chance to get up-to-date training that will finally complete your trauma toolbox! Wyatt Evans, PhD, ABPP, is a specialist in moral injury theory, assessment, and intervention. During this dynamic training, he’ll walk you step-by-step through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills and interventions so you can:

  • Help your clients get unstuck from morally-painful thoughts and feelings
  • Cultivate clients’ vitality through forgiveness and self-compassion
  • Foster growth and resilience by creating purposeful engagement with your clients’ most important values

PURCHASE TODAY to help your clients get back to living!

Here's What You'll Learn


Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional

  • Identify morally injurious events, transgressions, and betrayals
  • Typical aftermath of moral injury and where suffering arises
  • How to help clients understand the social function of moral emotions
  • Assessment strategies to recognize moral injury
  • Distinguish PTSD, depression, anxiety, and more from moral injury
  • Case example – complicated assessment of moral injury

Interventions to Target Beliefs Fueling Moral Injury

  • Potential pitfalls of traditional cognitive interventions - why ACT fits
  • How the relationship to moral pain can cause suffering
  • Challenge beliefs with compassion and emphasis on common humanity
  • Utilize openness to experience
  • Position personal values as criteria of truth
  • Cognitive defusion techniques to cultivate freedom from suffering
  • How to understand the self in the context of moral injury
  • Case example – working with “sticky” thoughts after moral injury

Behavioral Interventions for Guilt, Shame, Disgust, and Disillusionment

  • Strategies to help clients establish presence and willingness
  • Acceptance versus extinction - the role of exposure
  • Values clarification – re-evaluation, realignment, and release
  • Behavioral activation rooted in values
  • Use of mindfulness to cultivate compassion and forgiveness of self
  • How to overcome barriers to valued action
  • Case example – working with unwillingness

Clinical Considerations

  • Integrate ACT with trauma processing and other approaches
  • How to speak hexaflex - framing psychological flexibility as a goal
  • Troubleshooting when clients are stuck in moral pain
  • Manage therapist avoidance and strong emotional reactions
  • Ethics of values clarification
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 6 hours of content
  • Up to 6.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Wyatt R. Evans, PhD, ABPP

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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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Media Type:
DVD
Also Available:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
RNV059360
Duration:
6 hours, 13 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 07, 2025
Publisher:
PESI, Inc.

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