Journal article
Healthcare Workers and COVID-19-Related Moral Injury: An Interpersonally-Focused Approach Informed by PTSD
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a still-unfolding series of novel, potentially traumatic moral and ethical challenges that place many healthcare workers at risk of developing moral injury. Moral injury is a type of psychological response that may arise when one transgresses or witnesses another transgress deeply held moral values, or when one feels that an individual or institution that has a duty to provide care has failed to do so. …
Authors
D'Alessandro AM; Ritchie K; McCabe RE; Lanius RA; Heber A; Smith P; Malain A; Schielke H; O'Connor C; Hosseiny F
Journal
Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol. 12, ,
Publisher
Frontiers
DOI
10.3389/fpsyt.2021.784523
ISSN
1664-0640