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Invisible Wounds: Assessing The Awareness Of Moral Injury Among Toronto Police, Daniel Saugh
Invisible Wounds: Assessing The Awareness Of Moral Injury Among Toronto Police, Daniel Saugh
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Moral injury is believed to exist within the Canadian Police Services though it is difficult to recognize and is usually ignored. The research data emerging from military and first responders (i.e., police, firefighters, and EMS personnel) reveal the effects of moral injury and its implications for mental and spiritual health as it persists throughout the life and career of those affected.
This study investigates how moral injury may emerge from a potentially traumatic event(s) and/or psychological trauma and/or independent from such trauma and how moral injury may come to exist in members of the Toronto Police Service, as well as …