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[We can] tailor treatments to best give people help based on the symptoms they disclose to us.

Dr. Shira Maguen explains that there are ways to measure moral injury that can help clinicians tailor the treatment to the individual.

Transcript

There are
now ways to measure moral injury

and how severe the moral injury
might be in a given individual.

So we have measures 
one of which is called the MIDS,

the moral injury distress scale,
and that both measures

whether a person was exposed
to something that went

against their morals and values.

And it also is able to measure
a number of different moral

injury symptoms
like guilt and shame

and self-hatred,
and withdrawal.

And so we're able
to really understand

what types of symptoms
people have, but also how strong

those symptoms are.

And that allows us to tailor
treatments to best give people

help on based on the symptoms
that they disclosed to us.

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