Summit

2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025

Unmasking Moral Injury through Art Therapy: A Manual for Therapeutic Practice

Virtual · October 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Ariana Bazzi
    Suicide CPR Initiative, Department of Medical & Clinical Psychology, USUHS
  • Ariana Bazzi
    Center for Deployment Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Melissa Walker Freeman
    National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  • Sebastian Preilipper
    Center for Deployment Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Sebastian Preilipper
    Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
  • Heather Tompkins
    Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
  • Heather Tompkins
    Center for Deployment Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Elizabeth Burgin
    Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
  • Elizabeth Burgin
    Center for Deployment Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Maegan Paxton Willing
    Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
  • Maegan Paxton Willing
    Center for Deployment Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Abstract

This study utilizes a hybrid type I effectiveness-implementation design to develop a standardized manual for the mask-making therapeutic directive. A multidisciplinary team of art therapists, clinicians, and researchers will collaborate to develop this protocol, with the goal of evaluating its effectiveness in addressing moral injury among service members.

Military

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