Joseph M Currier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3885233 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joseph M Currier |
| PRENOMES | Joseph M |
| SOBRENOME | Currier |
| ASSINATURA | CURRIER J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Psychology Department University of South Alabama Mobile AL USA |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A meta-analytic comparison of longitudinal changes in scores on the Religious Spiritual and Struggles Scale and mental health symptom measures
Cope
The primary purpose of public mental health is to promote wellbeing. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) have found that it is crucial to engage community to improve wellbeing and to support persons at times of stress. The United States Surgeon General has reported on significant debilitation caused by an epidemic of loneliness, contributed to by the loss of social connect…
Exploring the role of moral injury outcomes in intimate relationship functioning among U.S. combat veterans
Overall, these findings suggest that moral injury could play a pernicious role in many veterans' issues in relationship problems with their spouses or partners. Future research needs to examine the potential utility of addressing moral injury among veterans who are struggling to meet demands for intimacy and connection in their intimate or romantic relationships. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Perceptions of Divine Forgiveness, Religious Comfort, and Depression in Psychiatric Inpatients
Moral injury and chronic pain among military veterans in an integrated behavioral health clinic
Preliminary findings demonstrate possible associations between MI and chronic pain among veterans with a need for holistic health care. Future research should examine mechanisms for an apparent MI-chronic pain link. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Own soul's warning
Our findings suggest that the presence of meaning in life may serve as a protective factor for veterans experiencing moral injury (particularly self-directed moral injury) that is associated with suicidal ideation. It is possible that guiding veterans with moral injury symptoms to develop more meaning or purpose in their lives may reduce suicidal ideation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
PTSD, religious coping, and interpersonal antecedents of suicidal desire among military veterans
A cross-sectional investigation of divine struggles and suicide risk among men in early recovery from substance use disorders
Understanding the roles of religious comfort and strain on depressive symptoms in an inpatient psychiatric setting
Understanding the role of religion in mental illness has always been complicated as some people turn to religion to cope with their illness, whereas others turn away. The overarching purpose of this study was to draw on quantitative and qualitative information to illuminate ways in which religiousness might be associated with changes in depressive symptomatology in a spiritually integrated inpatient treatment program. This repeated measures mixed…
Psychospiritual Developmental Risk Factors for Moral Injury
There is increasing theoretical, clinical, and empirical support for the hypothesis that psychospiritual development, and more specifically, postconventional religious reasoning, may be related to moral injury. In this study, we assessed the contributions of exposure to potentially morally injurious events, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and psychospiritual development to moral injury symptoms in a sample of military veterans (N = 212). Psychospi…
Spiritual struggles and ministry-related quality of life among faith leaders in Colombia
A Qualitative Examination of VA Chaplains’ Understandings and Interventions Related to Moral Injury in Military Veterans
Professional Quality of Life and Changes in Spirituality Among VHA Chaplains
A mixed method design was implemented to examine the spirituality and emotional well-being of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) chaplains and how potential changes in spirituality and emotional well-being may affect their professional quality of life. Four distinct categories of changes emerged from the narrative statements of a nationally representative sample of 267 VHA chaplains: (1) positive changes (e.g., increased empathy), (2) negative …
Assessing the unique role of religious coping in suicidal behavior among U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
Religion and cognitive processing of trauma among newly returned US Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
Religion can provide a powerful meaning-making framework that promotes adaptive processing of potentially traumatic events. However, spiritual strain or distress might be associated with maladaptive perceptions of the meaning of possible traumas. These theoretical propositions have yet to be tested in the empirical literature (to our knowledge). This study examined associations between adaptive and maladaptive religious factors – labelled “seekin…
Adverse childhood experiences and risk for suicidal behavior in male Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking PTSD treatment
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with increased risk for suicide and appear to occur in disproportionately high rates among men who served in the U.S. military. However, research has yet to examine a comprehensive range of ACEs among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or whether these premilitary stressors may contribute to suicidal behavior in this highly vulnerable population.A …
Meaning, perceived growth, and posttraumatic stress among teachers in El Salvador
Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the Moral Injury Questionnaire—Military Version
UNLABELLED: Moral injury is an emerging construct related to negative consequences associated with war-zone stressors that transgress military veterans' deeply held values/beliefs. Given the newness of the construct, there is a need for instrumentation that might assess morally injurious experiences (MIEs) in this population. Drawing on a community sample of 131 Iraq and/or Afghanistan Veterans and clinical sample of 82 returning Veterans, we con…
Trajectories of spiritual change among expatriate humanitarian aid workers
Expatriate humanitarian aid workers are often exposed to traumatic events and human suffering in the context of their deployments. Internal resources, such as having recourse to a transcendent spiritual framework, may play an important part in creating a meaningful perspective on the work and developing coping strategies to overcome challenging experiences. Aid workers from agencies based in North America and Europe participated in a longitudinal…
Bereavement, religion, and posttraumatic growth
This study examined the intersection between bereavement, religion, and posttraumatic growth (PTG). A total of 369 young adults completed the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (Fetzer Institute/NIA, 1999) and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996), divided equally into three groups: one bereaved by a violent loss (accident, suicide, or homicide) in the prior two years, one bereaved by a nonviolent…
Involvement in abusive violence among Vietnam veterans
Circumstances of modern wars have placed service members at risk for harming noncombatants and engaging in other possible morally injurious acts. Studying a sample of 1,203 combat veterans from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS), this investigation used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test (1) whether experiences of abusive violence are positively directly linked with drug or alcohol problems and suicidality when accou…
The factor structure of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale
The Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES; Underwood & Teresi, 2002) has made a distinctive contribution to the measurement of spirituality. However, the factor structure of the DSES has not been analyzed thoroughly and the instrument has not been administered to persons at the end of life (EOL). Thus, this study examined the dimensionality of the DSES using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and examined the unique impact of dif…
The Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (Isles)
Making meaning out of life stressors has been proposed as a crucial mechanism by which individuals adjust to these experiences. However, an easyto-use, multidimensional, and well-validated measure of the meaning made after a stressful life event has not been developed and tested. Thus, the present study tested the reliability and validity of scores for a newly developed measure called the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES). I…
Sense and significance
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to identify specific themes of meaning making (sense making and benefit finding) among bereaved parents, as well as to examine associations of these themes to the severity of grief symptomatology. A sample of 156 bereaved parents responded in writing to open‐ended questions about sense making and benefit finding. We assessed normative grief symptoms with the Core Bereavement Items (Burnett, Middleton, R…
Predictors of grief following the death of one's child
This study examined the relative contribution of objective risk factors and meaning‐making to grief severity among 157 parents who had lost a child to death. Participants completed the Core Bereavement Items (CBI; Burnett, Middleton, Raphael, & Martinek, 1997 ), Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG; Prigerson et al., 1995 ), questions assessing the process and degree of sense‐making and benefit‐finding, and the circumstances surrounding their loss…
Psychospiritual Developmental Risk Factors for Moral Injury
There is increasing theoretical, clinical, and empirical support for the hypothesis that psychospiritual development, and more specifically, postconventional religious reasoning, may be related to moral injury. In this study, we assessed the contributions of exposure to potentially morally injurious events, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and psychospiritual development to moral injury symptoms in a sample of military veterans (N = 212). Psychospi…
Predictors of grief following the death of one's child
This study examined the relative contribution of objective risk factors and meaning‐making to grief severity among 157 parents who had lost a child to death. Participants completed the Core Bereavement Items (CBI; Burnett, Middleton, Raphael, & Martinek, 1997 ), Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG; Prigerson et al., 1995 ), questions assessing the process and degree of sense‐making and benefit‐finding, and the circumstances surrounding their loss…
The effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions for bereaved persons
Previous quantitative reviews of research on psychotherapeutic interventions for bereaved persons have yielded divergent findings and have not included many of the available controlled outcome studies. This meta-analysis summarizes results from 61 controlled studies to offer a more comprehensive integration of this literature. This review examined (a) the absolute effectiveness of bereavement interventions immediately following intervention and a…
The Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (Isles)
Making meaning out of life stressors has been proposed as a crucial mechanism by which individuals adjust to these experiences. However, an easyto-use, multidimensional, and well-validated measure of the meaning made after a stressful life event has not been developed and tested. Thus, the present study tested the reliability and validity of scores for a newly developed measure called the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES). I…
Sense and significance
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to identify specific themes of meaning making (sense making and benefit finding) among bereaved parents, as well as to examine associations of these themes to the severity of grief symptomatology. A sample of 156 bereaved parents responded in writing to open‐ended questions about sense making and benefit finding. We assessed normative grief symptoms with the Core Bereavement Items (Burnett, Middleton, R…
The factor structure of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale
The Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES; Underwood & Teresi, 2002) has made a distinctive contribution to the measurement of spirituality. However, the factor structure of the DSES has not been analyzed thoroughly and the instrument has not been administered to persons at the end of life (EOL). Thus, this study examined the dimensionality of the DSES using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and examined the unique impact of dif…
Bereavement, religion, and posttraumatic growth
This study examined the intersection between bereavement, religion, and posttraumatic growth (PTG). A total of 369 young adults completed the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (Fetzer Institute/NIA, 1999) and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996), divided equally into three groups: one bereaved by a violent loss (accident, suicide, or homicide) in the prior two years, one bereaved by a nonviolent…
Involvement in abusive violence among Vietnam veterans
Circumstances of modern wars have placed service members at risk for harming noncombatants and engaging in other possible morally injurious acts. Studying a sample of 1,203 combat veterans from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS), this investigation used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test (1) whether experiences of abusive violence are positively directly linked with drug or alcohol problems and suicidality when accou…
Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the Moral Injury Questionnaire—Military Version
UNLABELLED: Moral injury is an emerging construct related to negative consequences associated with war-zone stressors that transgress military veterans' deeply held values/beliefs. Given the newness of the construct, there is a need for instrumentation that might assess morally injurious experiences (MIEs) in this population. Drawing on a community sample of 131 Iraq and/or Afghanistan Veterans and clinical sample of 82 returning Veterans, we con…
Trajectories of spiritual change among expatriate humanitarian aid workers
Expatriate humanitarian aid workers are often exposed to traumatic events and human suffering in the context of their deployments. Internal resources, such as having recourse to a transcendent spiritual framework, may play an important part in creating a meaningful perspective on the work and developing coping strategies to overcome challenging experiences. Aid workers from agencies based in North America and Europe participated in a longitudinal…
Meaning, perceived growth, and posttraumatic stress among teachers in El Salvador
Professional Quality of Life and Changes in Spirituality Among VHA Chaplains
A mixed method design was implemented to examine the spirituality and emotional well-being of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) chaplains and how potential changes in spirituality and emotional well-being may affect their professional quality of life. Four distinct categories of changes emerged from the narrative statements of a nationally representative sample of 267 VHA chaplains: (1) positive changes (e.g., increased empathy), (2) negative …
Assessing the unique role of religious coping in suicidal behavior among U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
Religion and cognitive processing of trauma among newly returned US Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
Religion can provide a powerful meaning-making framework that promotes adaptive processing of potentially traumatic events. However, spiritual strain or distress might be associated with maladaptive perceptions of the meaning of possible traumas. These theoretical propositions have yet to be tested in the empirical literature (to our knowledge). This study examined associations between adaptive and maladaptive religious factors – labelled “seekin…
Adverse childhood experiences and risk for suicidal behavior in male Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking PTSD treatment
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with increased risk for suicide and appear to occur in disproportionately high rates among men who served in the U.S. military. However, research has yet to examine a comprehensive range of ACEs among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or whether these premilitary stressors may contribute to suicidal behavior in this highly vulnerable population.A …
A Qualitative Examination of VA Chaplains’ Understandings and Interventions Related to Moral Injury in Military Veterans
Spiritual struggles and ministry-related quality of life among faith leaders in Colombia
PTSD, religious coping, and interpersonal antecedents of suicidal desire among military veterans
A cross-sectional investigation of divine struggles and suicide risk among men in early recovery from substance use disorders
Understanding the roles of religious comfort and strain on depressive symptoms in an inpatient psychiatric setting
Understanding the role of religion in mental illness has always been complicated as some people turn to religion to cope with their illness, whereas others turn away. The overarching purpose of this study was to draw on quantitative and qualitative information to illuminate ways in which religiousness might be associated with changes in depressive symptomatology in a spiritually integrated inpatient treatment program. This repeated measures mixed…
Psychospiritual Developmental Risk Factors for Moral Injury
There is increasing theoretical, clinical, and empirical support for the hypothesis that psychospiritual development, and more specifically, postconventional religious reasoning, may be related to moral injury. In this study, we assessed the contributions of exposure to potentially morally injurious events, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and psychospiritual development to moral injury symptoms in a sample of military veterans (N = 212). Psychospi…
Own soul's warning
Our findings suggest that the presence of meaning in life may serve as a protective factor for veterans experiencing moral injury (particularly self-directed moral injury) that is associated with suicidal ideation. It is possible that guiding veterans with moral injury symptoms to develop more meaning or purpose in their lives may reduce suicidal ideation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Perceptions of Divine Forgiveness, Religious Comfort, and Depression in Psychiatric Inpatients
Moral injury and chronic pain among military veterans in an integrated behavioral health clinic
Preliminary findings demonstrate possible associations between MI and chronic pain among veterans with a need for holistic health care. Future research should examine mechanisms for an apparent MI-chronic pain link. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Exploring the role of moral injury outcomes in intimate relationship functioning among U.S. combat veterans
Overall, these findings suggest that moral injury could play a pernicious role in many veterans' issues in relationship problems with their spouses or partners. Future research needs to examine the potential utility of addressing moral injury among veterans who are struggling to meet demands for intimacy and connection in their intimate or romantic relationships. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
A meta-analytic comparison of longitudinal changes in scores on the Religious Spiritual and Struggles Scale and mental health symptom measures
Psychology (26 obras) · Clinical Psychology (22 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Psychotherapist (17 obras) · Social Psychology (15 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (13 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (12 obras) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (8 obras) · Resilience and Mental Health (7 obras)