The Moral Injury Experience Wheel : Increasing Moral Emotional Literacy

An innovative and effective instrument that gives language to the often unspoken pain of moral injury. —Harold G. Koenig, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center.We have found the experience wheel very useful for helping people identify their feelings of moral injury. Rita Brock, Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Recovery Programs at Volunteers of America, author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War.The Moral Injury Experience Wheel ("MIEW") is a unique and specialist instrument that has proven itself to be easy to use and greatly assists with the systematic translation of moral injury into meaningful discussions, leading to a deeper understanding of one’s own and others’ morally injurious experience. — Lindsay B. Carey, Associate Professor, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and Editor in Chief, Journal of Religion and Health, Springer Science.In response to the need for an infographic tool that gives precise language to moral emotions and conceptualizes the origin, context, and function of moral injury, clinicians may now benefit from the Moral Injury Experience Wheel (MIEW). The circumplex model visually catalogs moral emotions and depicts their relationship to morally injurious events through spatial and semantic proximity. This manual provides strategies, exercises and applications for maximizing the adaptive processes elicited by MIEW in a variety of clinical settings and populations. Read more