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Please find displayed below the presentation and poster abstracts that have been accepted to date; these will be presented over the two days of ANZMIC.


Thursday, May 21, 2026

1:00 AM - 1:02 AM
Presentation Abstracts
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM Ethical Conflicts and Moral Injury in Australian Defence Force Medics and Nurses
10:00 AM - 10:29 AM Intergenerational moral injury impacts in children of service parents: Implications for theory, policy and practice
Moral Injury: Addressing Recommendation 78 of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide
Women, military service and moral injury in the Australian context: initial findings.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Public Service in the Shadows: Vicarious Trauma and Moral Injury in Government Workers
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM Going Against the Grain - Moral Injury and the Authentic Self
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM Moral injury in health workers, emergency services, police, government officials, and teachers: Measurement invariance of the Occupational Moral Injury Scale (OMIS) and group comparisons
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM From Recognition to Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Moral Injury Approach Integrating Psychology and Chaplaincy from Emergency Services
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM The Returned and Services League Australia, Chaplaincy and Moral Injury: The connection between Recognition and Recovery.
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Spiritual health as a framework for intervention and prevention of moral injury
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM The Fierce Compassion of Moral Injury
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM Responding to Moral Injury in a Military Maritime Crisis
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM Moral Injury in recent Australian Conflicts
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM Moral Injury on an in-patient unit for First Responders - Rapid Fire Optimisation of Treatment Approaches
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM Why we don’t talk about Moral Injury: A missing occupational domain among Speech Pathologists
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM How Socio-cultural Contexts Can Inform Models for Addressing Moral Injury: Two Examples.
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Differences and similarities between PTSD and moral injury in police officers and the impact this has on treatment
4:00 PM - 4:02 PM “If I Don’t Go, Who Will?” Organisational Drivers of Moral Injury in Paramedics Experiencing Fatigue
4:03 PM - 4:05 PM Applied Recovery: Turning Lived Experience into Practice for Healing Moral Injury
4:07 PM - 4:08 PM Deeply Personal Wounds: An Integrative Approach to Treating Trauma, Moral Injury and Loss
4:09 PM - 4:10 PM Expectation-Informed Care for Army Veterans: Addressing Psychological Contract Violation and Moral Injury Across the Army Service Life Cycle
4:11 PM - 4:12 PM Fractured Selves: An Exploration of The Relationship Between Self-Identity and Moral Injury
4:13 PM - 4:14 PM From Recognition to Recovery: A lived-and-learnt panel on moral injury across frontline contexts
4:14 PM - 4:15 PM From Recognition to Recovery: Treating Systemic Moral Injury within the Workers’ Compensation Process in Tasmania.
4:18 PM - 4:19 PM How IV Ketamine with adjunctive psychotherapy can help veterans with moral injury
4:22 PM - 4:23 PM Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery and Prevention (MB-tr): A Mindfulness–Somatic Approach to Healing Moral Injury in Frontline Populations
4:23 PM - 4:24 PM Moral Injuries in Police Cohorts: The known and unknowns.
4:25 PM - 4:26 PM Moral Injury and Organisational Influences on ICU Nurse Wellbeing: Insights from Patient-Centred Nursing and Compassion Research
4:27 PM - 4:28 PM Moral Injury in Teaching: The Systemic Roots of Ethical Conflict and Emotional Burnout in Education
4:28 PM - 4:29 PM Moral Injury in Wildlife Workers and Volunteers
4:31 PM - 4:32 PM Moral Injury: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Support Recovery
4:33 PM - 4:34 PM Moral Injury: Organisational and Clinical Challenges in the Veteran Space
4:35 PM - 4:36 PM Moral Injury: The recognition and effect of moral injury on nurse managers and its impact on their approach to management and staff wellbeing
4:40 PM - 4:41 PM Silent struggles: Nurses experience of moral distress
4:48 PM - 4:49 PM Structural analysis of potential moral injury conditions in Australian education system
4:50 PM - 4:51 PM The Betrayal–Transition Stress Model: Explaining Moral Injury Across Military Transitions
4:52 PM - 4:53 PM The Neurocorrelates of Morality and the Implications for Moral Injury
4:55 PM - 4:56 PM The Vulnerable Researcher: Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury, and the Ethics of Human Rights Fieldwork in Fragile Contexts
4:57 PM - 4:58 PM Truth, Lies, and Moral Injury
4:59 PM - 5:00 PM When recovery hurts – using a moral injury framework to better understand injured worker distress
5:01 PM - 5:02 PM When the Helpers Are Harmed: Managing Moral Injury Risk in Frontline and Organisational Contexts
5:03 PM - 5:04 PM When the Mission Betrays the Message: Moral injury in values-driven workplaces
5:05 PM - 5:06 PM Whistleblowing and Moral Injury: From Personal Leadership to Institutional Leadership
5:06 PM - 5:07 PM Working with Moral Injury in Psychotherapy: A Clinical Skills Workshop
6:00 PM - 6:01 PM Moral Injury in Elite Sport: Trauma in the Failure of the Athlete’s Quest
7:00 PM - 7:01 PM Behind the Lens: Exploring Moral Injury and Pathways to Healing in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Film Industry
8:00 PM - 8:01 PM Working Together to Prevent Moral Injury: The Role of Higher Education and Clinical Placement Providers in Protecting Healthcare Students
8:02 PM - 8:03 PM From Moral Distress to Moral Injury: Organisational Contributors to Moral Harm in Nurse Academia
8:10 PM - 8:11 PM Whistleblowers and Moral Injury: Rehabilitating Moral component though peers - A pilot project
8:31 PM - 8:32 PM Moral Injury in current conflict – War in Ukraine and perfidious warfare
9:00 PM - 9:01 PM The straw that breaks the camel’s back: Micro trauma and its moral injury implications
9:03 PM - 9:04 PM From the Frontline to the Fire: A Doctor’s Journey Through Moral Injury and Recovery
9:15 PM - 9:16 PM
Moral injury and the ADF deployment to Rwanda
9:19 PM - 9:20 PM Reflection - A Key Assist between Recognition of, and Recovery from, Moral Injury
9:23 PM - 9:24 PM Let's Talk TACTICS. The 'How to' of communication to address Moral Injury in the workplace.
1:00 AM - 1:02 AM
Presentation Abstracts
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM Ethical Conflicts and Moral Injury in Australian Defence Force Medics and Nurses
10:00 AM - 10:29 AM Intergenerational moral injury impacts in children of service parents: Implications for theory, policy and practice
Moral Injury: Addressing Recommendation 78 of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide
Women, military service and moral injury in the Australian context: initial findings.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Public Service in the Shadows: Vicarious Trauma and Moral Injury in Government Workers
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM Going Against the Grain - Moral Injury and the Authentic Self
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM Moral injury in health workers, emergency services, police, government officials, and teachers: Measurement invariance of the Occupational Moral Injury Scale (OMIS) and group comparisons
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM From Recognition to Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Moral Injury Approach Integrating Psychology and Chaplaincy from Emergency Services
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM The Returned and Services League Australia, Chaplaincy and Moral Injury: The connection between Recognition and Recovery.
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Spiritual health as a framework for intervention and prevention of moral injury
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM The Fierce Compassion of Moral Injury
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM Responding to Moral Injury in a Military Maritime Crisis
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM Moral Injury in recent Australian Conflicts
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM Moral Injury on an in-patient unit for First Responders - Rapid Fire Optimisation of Treatment Approaches
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM Why we don’t talk about Moral Injury: A missing occupational domain among Speech Pathologists
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM How Socio-cultural Contexts Can Inform Models for Addressing Moral Injury: Two Examples.
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Differences and similarities between PTSD and moral injury in police officers and the impact this has on treatment
4:00 PM - 4:02 PM “If I Don’t Go, Who Will?” Organisational Drivers of Moral Injury in Paramedics Experiencing Fatigue
4:03 PM - 4:05 PM Applied Recovery: Turning Lived Experience into Practice for Healing Moral Injury
4:07 PM - 4:08 PM Deeply Personal Wounds: An Integrative Approach to Treating Trauma, Moral Injury and Loss
4:09 PM - 4:10 PM Expectation-Informed Care for Army Veterans: Addressing Psychological Contract Violation and Moral Injury Across the Army Service Life Cycle
4:11 PM - 4:12 PM Fractured Selves: An Exploration of The Relationship Between Self-Identity and Moral Injury
4:13 PM - 4:14 PM From Recognition to Recovery: A lived-and-learnt panel on moral injury across frontline contexts
4:14 PM - 4:15 PM From Recognition to Recovery: Treating Systemic Moral Injury within the Workers’ Compensation Process in Tasmania.
4:18 PM - 4:19 PM How IV Ketamine with adjunctive psychotherapy can help veterans with moral injury
4:22 PM - 4:23 PM Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery and Prevention (MB-tr): A Mindfulness–Somatic Approach to Healing Moral Injury in Frontline Populations
4:23 PM - 4:24 PM Moral Injuries in Police Cohorts: The known and unknowns.
4:25 PM - 4:26 PM Moral Injury and Organisational Influences on ICU Nurse Wellbeing: Insights from Patient-Centred Nursing and Compassion Research
4:27 PM - 4:28 PM Moral Injury in Teaching: The Systemic Roots of Ethical Conflict and Emotional Burnout in Education
4:28 PM - 4:29 PM Moral Injury in Wildlife Workers and Volunteers
4:31 PM - 4:32 PM Moral Injury: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Support Recovery
4:33 PM - 4:34 PM Moral Injury: Organisational and Clinical Challenges in the Veteran Space
4:35 PM - 4:36 PM Moral Injury: The recognition and effect of moral injury on nurse managers and its impact on their approach to management and staff wellbeing
4:40 PM - 4:41 PM Silent struggles: Nurses experience of moral distress
4:48 PM - 4:49 PM Structural analysis of potential moral injury conditions in Australian education system
4:50 PM - 4:51 PM The Betrayal–Transition Stress Model: Explaining Moral Injury Across Military Transitions
4:52 PM - 4:53 PM The Neurocorrelates of Morality and the Implications for Moral Injury
4:55 PM - 4:56 PM The Vulnerable Researcher: Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury, and the Ethics of Human Rights Fieldwork in Fragile Contexts
4:57 PM - 4:58 PM Truth, Lies, and Moral Injury
4:59 PM - 5:00 PM When recovery hurts – using a moral injury framework to better understand injured worker distress
5:01 PM - 5:02 PM When the Helpers Are Harmed: Managing Moral Injury Risk in Frontline and Organisational Contexts
5:03 PM - 5:04 PM When the Mission Betrays the Message: Moral injury in values-driven workplaces
5:05 PM - 5:06 PM Whistleblowing and Moral Injury: From Personal Leadership to Institutional Leadership
5:06 PM - 5:07 PM Working with Moral Injury in Psychotherapy: A Clinical Skills Workshop
6:00 PM - 6:01 PM Moral Injury in Elite Sport: Trauma in the Failure of the Athlete’s Quest
7:00 PM - 7:01 PM Behind the Lens: Exploring Moral Injury and Pathways to Healing in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Film Industry
8:00 PM - 8:01 PM Working Together to Prevent Moral Injury: The Role of Higher Education and Clinical Placement Providers in Protecting Healthcare Students
8:02 PM - 8:03 PM From Moral Distress to Moral Injury: Organisational Contributors to Moral Harm in Nurse Academia
8:10 PM - 8:11 PM Whistleblowers and Moral Injury: Rehabilitating Moral component though peers - A pilot project
8:31 PM - 8:32 PM Moral Injury in current conflict – War in Ukraine and perfidious warfare
9:00 PM - 9:01 PM The straw that breaks the camel’s back: Micro trauma and its moral injury implications
9:03 PM - 9:04 PM From the Frontline to the Fire: A Doctor’s Journey Through Moral Injury and Recovery
9:15 PM - 9:16 PM
Moral injury and the ADF deployment to Rwanda
9:19 PM - 9:20 PM Reflection - A Key Assist between Recognition of, and Recovery from, Moral Injury
9:23 PM - 9:24 PM Let's Talk TACTICS. The 'How to' of communication to address Moral Injury in the workplace.

1:00 AM - 1:02 AM
Presentation Abstracts
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM Ethical Conflicts and Moral Injury in Australian Defence Force Medics and Nurses
10:00 AM - 10:29 AM Intergenerational moral injury impacts in children of service parents: Implications for theory, policy and practice
Moral Injury: Addressing Recommendation 78 of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide
Women, military service and moral injury in the Australian context: initial findings.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Public Service in the Shadows: Vicarious Trauma and Moral Injury in Government Workers
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM Going Against the Grain - Moral Injury and the Authentic Self
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM Moral injury in health workers, emergency services, police, government officials, and teachers: Measurement invariance of the Occupational Moral Injury Scale (OMIS) and group comparisons
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM From Recognition to Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Moral Injury Approach Integrating Psychology and Chaplaincy from Emergency Services
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM The Returned and Services League Australia, Chaplaincy and Moral Injury: The connection between Recognition and Recovery.
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Spiritual health as a framework for intervention and prevention of moral injury
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM The Fierce Compassion of Moral Injury
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM Responding to Moral Injury in a Military Maritime Crisis
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM Moral Injury in recent Australian Conflicts
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM Moral Injury on an in-patient unit for First Responders - Rapid Fire Optimisation of Treatment Approaches
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM Why we don’t talk about Moral Injury: A missing occupational domain among Speech Pathologists
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM How Socio-cultural Contexts Can Inform Models for Addressing Moral Injury: Two Examples.
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Differences and similarities between PTSD and moral injury in police officers and the impact this has on treatment
4:00 PM - 4:02 PM “If I Don’t Go, Who Will?” Organisational Drivers of Moral Injury in Paramedics Experiencing Fatigue
4:03 PM - 4:05 PM Applied Recovery: Turning Lived Experience into Practice for Healing Moral Injury
4:07 PM - 4:08 PM Deeply Personal Wounds: An Integrative Approach to Treating Trauma, Moral Injury and Loss
4:09 PM - 4:10 PM Expectation-Informed Care for Army Veterans: Addressing Psychological Contract Violation and Moral Injury Across the Army Service Life Cycle
4:11 PM - 4:12 PM Fractured Selves: An Exploration of The Relationship Between Self-Identity and Moral Injury
4:13 PM - 4:14 PM From Recognition to Recovery: A lived-and-learnt panel on moral injury across frontline contexts
4:14 PM - 4:15 PM From Recognition to Recovery: Treating Systemic Moral Injury within the Workers’ Compensation Process in Tasmania.
4:18 PM - 4:19 PM How IV Ketamine with adjunctive psychotherapy can help veterans with moral injury
4:22 PM - 4:23 PM Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery and Prevention (MB-tr): A Mindfulness–Somatic Approach to Healing Moral Injury in Frontline Populations
4:23 PM - 4:24 PM Moral Injuries in Police Cohorts: The known and unknowns.
4:25 PM - 4:26 PM Moral Injury and Organisational Influences on ICU Nurse Wellbeing: Insights from Patient-Centred Nursing and Compassion Research
4:27 PM - 4:28 PM Moral Injury in Teaching: The Systemic Roots of Ethical Conflict and Emotional Burnout in Education
4:28 PM - 4:29 PM Moral Injury in Wildlife Workers and Volunteers
4:31 PM - 4:32 PM Moral Injury: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Support Recovery
4:33 PM - 4:34 PM Moral Injury: Organisational and Clinical Challenges in the Veteran Space
4:35 PM - 4:36 PM Moral Injury: The recognition and effect of moral injury on nurse managers and its impact on their approach to management and staff wellbeing
4:40 PM - 4:41 PM Silent struggles: Nurses experience of moral distress
4:48 PM - 4:49 PM Structural analysis of potential moral injury conditions in Australian education system
4:50 PM - 4:51 PM The Betrayal–Transition Stress Model: Explaining Moral Injury Across Military Transitions
4:52 PM - 4:53 PM The Neurocorrelates of Morality and the Implications for Moral Injury
4:55 PM - 4:56 PM The Vulnerable Researcher: Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury, and the Ethics of Human Rights Fieldwork in Fragile Contexts
4:57 PM - 4:58 PM Truth, Lies, and Moral Injury
4:59 PM - 5:00 PM When recovery hurts – using a moral injury framework to better understand injured worker distress
5:01 PM - 5:02 PM When the Helpers Are Harmed: Managing Moral Injury Risk in Frontline and Organisational Contexts
5:03 PM - 5:04 PM When the Mission Betrays the Message: Moral injury in values-driven workplaces
5:05 PM - 5:06 PM Whistleblowing and Moral Injury: From Personal Leadership to Institutional Leadership
5:06 PM - 5:07 PM Working with Moral Injury in Psychotherapy: A Clinical Skills Workshop
6:00 PM - 6:01 PM Moral Injury in Elite Sport: Trauma in the Failure of the Athlete’s Quest
7:00 PM - 7:01 PM Behind the Lens: Exploring Moral Injury and Pathways to Healing in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Film Industry
8:00 PM - 8:01 PM Working Together to Prevent Moral Injury: The Role of Higher Education and Clinical Placement Providers in Protecting Healthcare Students
8:02 PM - 8:03 PM From Moral Distress to Moral Injury: Organisational Contributors to Moral Harm in Nurse Academia
8:10 PM - 8:11 PM Whistleblowers and Moral Injury: Rehabilitating Moral component though peers - A pilot project
8:31 PM - 8:32 PM Moral Injury in current conflict – War in Ukraine and perfidious warfare
9:00 PM - 9:01 PM The straw that breaks the camel’s back: Micro trauma and its moral injury implications
9:03 PM - 9:04 PM From the Frontline to the Fire: A Doctor’s Journey Through Moral Injury and Recovery
9:15 PM - 9:16 PM
Moral injury and the ADF deployment to Rwanda
9:19 PM - 9:20 PM Reflection - A Key Assist between Recognition of, and Recovery from, Moral Injury
9:23 PM - 9:24 PM Let's Talk TACTICS. The 'How to' of communication to address Moral Injury in the workplace.


Friday, May 22, 2026


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