Ready to bleed when touched – Moral Injury in the Special Operations Forces military population
Anna M. Gielas
Abstract:The armed forces combine different military populations with specific patterns of psycho-medical challenges and needs. The Special Operations Forces (SOF) exhibit one such pattern because they undergo more rigorous selection procedures, train differently and generally engage in different types of missions than other military populations. The aim of this commentary is to briefly introduce the psycho-medical patterns of SOF while paying particular attention to the growing discussion of Moral Injury (MI) in this … Show more
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