Let's Get "REAL": A Collaborative Group Therapy for Moral Injury.

Moral injury is a particular response to profoundly distressing life events that manifests in damage to basic human/relational capacities, such as trust, autonomy, initiative, competence, identity, and intimacy. This paper describes and presents preliminary outcomes of "Reclaiming Experiences And Loss," or "REAL," which is an innovative moral injury group therapy that was developed collaboratively by Veterans Affairs mental health and spiritual care providers. Clinical outcome measures collected pre- and post-group indicates that REAL is effective at reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

Latent profile analysis exploring potential moral injury and posttraumatic stress disorder among military veterans.

Objectives: Theoretical support for the moral injury (MI) construct is mounting, yet empirical support has lagged behind. A conceptual model has been proposed, but studies have not yet explored the constellation of symptoms within treatment-seeking Veterans.

Methods: Veterans (N = 212) seeking trauma recovery services completed measures of potential MI symptoms that functioned as indicators in person-centered Latent Profile Analysis.

Moral injury, meaning making, and mental health in returning veterans.

Objective: This study examined whether exposure to morally injurious experiences (MIEs) contribute to mental health problems among returning Veterans via meaning made of possible traumas.

Method: A total of 131 Iraq and/or Afghanistan Veterans completed assessments of exposure to possible warzone traumas, meaning made of a salient stressor from their lives, and mental health symptomatology (e.g.

Mobile screening mammography for the corporate customer.

While the concept of mobile imaging services is not new, mobile screening mammography has recently gained a great deal of attention, and several mobile breast screening programs are in operation throughout the United States. This article describes the development of a mobile breast screening program designed to attract corporations' employees as its primary source of participants. The design of the program, corporate concerns and operational issues are discussed as well as the findings of its first year of operation.