Module 3: Moral Injury among Professionals
Overview
Module 3 describes the experience of moral injury in professionals. We use the case of child welfare professionals as a case example. Karen, a social worker, experienced moral injury as a result of her work within the child welfare system. Working in a system she viewed as punitive to families, Karen felt her professional values were perverted, resulting in intense guilt, anger and loss of meaning. Karen eventually left the field.