The impact of potentially morally injurious events on the effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD.

OBJECTIVE: Morally injurious events are a more recent area of interest in the field of trauma psychology. Some suggest that current, evidence-based psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) do not adequately address PTSD symptoms stemming from events perceived as morally injurious; however, this has not been clearly demonstrated in the literature. The goal of this study was to add to emerging evidence and explore whether current evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD can adequately address PTSD symptoms resulting from both (PMIE) potentially morally injurious and (non-PMIE) nonmorally injurious events. METHOD: = 76). RESULTS: = .985, after controlling for military sexual trauma, the only demographic variable with pretreatment group differences. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that for many veterans, current evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD may effectively reduce PTSD symptoms even when PTSD results from an event they perceive as morally injurious. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).