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Event Overview:

Spirituality and religion (S/R) are core areas of diversity and psychological functioning that can influence the impacts of trauma and/or potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs). On the one hand, S/R can support well-being, healthy coping, and transcendence in ways that facilitate meaning making and resilience. However, these same beliefs, practices, relationships, and other aspects of S/R can also engender or worsen struggles that interfere with healing and recovery. Despite significant progress in scientific research illuminating the clinical and cultural relevance of S/R in PTSD and moral injury, mental health professionals seldom receive formal training in how to attend to their clients’ spiritual and/or religious identities. Drawing upon an emerging set of spiritual and religious competencies that might guide clinical research and practice for moral injury, this talk will discuss: (1) basic areas of attitudes, knowledge, and skill related to S/R that every clinician will ideally develop; and (2) best practices for addressing S/R in psychotherapy for moral injury and trauma.


Meet Your Presenter:

Joseph Currier, PhD is a licensed psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of South Alabama (USA). His research focuses on understanding and addressing the multifaceted role of spirituality/religion in trauma, moral injury, and other mental health challenges in clinical training and practice. He has published 150 peer-reviewed articles in these areas and two books with the American Psychological Association, entitled Trauma, Meaning, and Spirituality: Translating Research into Clinical Practice and Addressing Moral Injury in Clinical Practice. His work has been funded by John Templeton Foundation, Templeton World Charity Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), SAMHSA, and HRSA. He served as PI of Spiritual and Religious Competencies Project (ID #60233), an inter-disciplinary and multi-pronged project aimed at increasing training in spiritual and religious competencies in the U.S., and led the planning process for this global dissemination project (ID #63446). He also served as the Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical and Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program at USA from 2015-2020, Clinical Director for Veterans Recovery Resources from 2018-2022, and was a RWFJ Clinical Scholar Fellow from 2018-2021. He is the incoming editor for APA’s Spirituality in Clinical Practice.


Date: February 25th, 2026

Time: 7pm - 8:30 pm ET

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SinCC Event - The Intersection Between Spirituality, Trauma, and Moral Injury

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