Abstract
[This is an excerpt.] Moral injury is understood to be the strong cognitive and emotional response that can occur following events that violate a person’s moral or ethical code.1 Potentially morally injurious events include a person’s own or other people’s acts of omission or commission, or betrayal by a trusted person in a high-stakes situation. For example, health-care staff working during the COVID-19 pandemic might experience moral injury because they perceive that they received inadequate protective equipment, or when their workload is such that they deliver care of a standard that falls well below what they would usually consider to be good enough. [To read more, click View Resource.]
