Comfort Ye My People: Chaplains, Spiritual Care, and Operational Stress Injury

The fields of psychiatry and psychology provide invaluable insight into combat operational stress injury and posttraumatic stress disorder yet, of necessity, their work is grounded in a medical model ill equipped to address many of the recurring spiritual concerns increasingly identified with trauma. Chaplains, grounded in enduring religious traditions and communities of faith, bring specialized knowledge in theology and philosophy, distinctive pastoral care training, and sacraments and rituals of meaning to the care and healing of operational stress injury.