Spiritual Care: Trauma and Moral Injury (DP9041P)

Content

This unit focuses on advanced spiritual care techniques to care for people who have experienced trauma and/or moral injury. You will further develop your ability to offer a non-anxious presence through informed reflective practice. You will deepen your personal and professional integration while developing particular skills built on trauma-informed care principles and recent developments moral injury care.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

This unit assumes advanced practical experience in Spiritual Care and/or prior completion of DP8011P Spiritual Care: Independent Practitioner or DP9031P Spiritual Care: Senior Practitioner

This unit is specifically designed for chaplains and spiritual care workers with practitioner experience but it can also include extensive pastoral ministry placements that involve community outreach.  

Pedagogy

Seminars, workshops with time for reflection, guided reading, case studies

Indicative Bibliography

• Glasson, Barbara. A Spirituality of Survival: Enabling a Response to Trauma and Abuse. London: Continuum, 2009.
• McClintock, Karen A. Trauma-informed Pastoral Care: How to Respond When Things Fall Apart. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2022.
• Rambo, Shelley. Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining, (2nd ed.) Westminster, KY: John Knox Press, 2010.
• Rothschild, Babette. Help for the Helper: Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in an Ever-changing World. New York: Norton Professional Books, 2023.
• Rushton, Cynda H. Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Rushton, Cynda H. "Transforming Moral Suffering by Cultivating Moral Resilience and Ethical Practice". American Journal of Critical Care 32, no. 4 (2023): 238-248.
• Swinton, John. Raging with Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
• van Deusen Hunsiger, Deborah. Bearing the Unbearable: Trauma, Gospel, and Pastoral Care. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015.
• Hodgson, Timothy J., L.B. Carey & H.G. Koenig. "Moral Injury, Betrayal and Retribution: Australian Veterans and the Role of Chaplains". Journal of Religion and Health 61 (2022): 993-1021.

Assessment