Assessing Spirituality

 Spiritual Injury App is a screening tool for assessing spiritual and moral injury. Special attention is given to military veterans and the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. A manual is available describing this instrument at www.spiritualassessment.com.

 East Of Eden: The Spiritual Meaning Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by the author of this website, describes the significance of spiritual injuries as a corrective in addressing our culture's obsession with violence. PTSD has been described as a mental illness or disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. East of Eden takes exception to this definition, which carries with it a pejorative meaning that too ofen characterizes combat veterans as misfits and losers. The author argues that the wounds of war are spiritual injuries that carry with them a prophetic message we desperately need to hear. PTSD in not an illness but a protest agains war and killing.