The Handbook Moral Injury in Context was published by Boom on Thursday 27 March. The book is an in-depth and practical guide to moral injury, directly resulting from the research project Moral Injury. The handbook was compiled by Tine Molendijk, Teun Eikenaar, Naomi Gilhuis and Sofie van der Maarel, and contains contributions from Jackie June ter Heide, Jeannine Suurmond, Bernardette Blom and Carmen Schuhmann.
Handbook Moral Injury in Context: an in-depth and practical guide to moral injury
Soldiers, police officers, firefighters and healthcare providers are often faced with decisions that can make the difference between life and death. What happens when they are confronted with tragic moral dilemmas, make mistakes or discover that they have temporarily lost sight of their own standards and values? This book offers crucial insights into the impact of such experiences and shows what we can do about them. From the individual level to the organisation, politics and society. The book approaches moral injury explicitly and from an interdisciplinary approach, namely: psychology, philosophy, organisational science and social sciences. This makes the handbook unique.
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The research project ‘Moral injury in context’ from which this book originated, is a collaboration between Radboud University, the Faculty of Military Sciences, the Netherlands Defence Academy, the Police Academy, the Netherlands Institute for Veterans' Affairs and ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, with support from NWO (Dutch Research Council). With Willemijn Verkoren (RU), Desiree Verweij (RU/NLDA), Eric-Hans Kramer (NLDA), Martin Elands (NLVI), Jacco Duel (NLVI), Annika Smit (PA), Annelieke Drogendijk (ARQ), Jackie June ter Heide (project advisor ARQ), and Emilie van de Wijer (project advisor GV Politie). Thanks to all the professionals who shared their stories!
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