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SUMMARY:Civilians are on Fire: Nine Months of Traumatic Stress and Moral I
 njury in Ukrainians Under the Russian Invasion - Larysa Zasiekina is Profe
 ssor of Clinical Psychology at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University an
 d Director of the Ukrainian Psychotrauma Center
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CONTACT:Flavia Bartoletti
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Larysa Zasiekina for this fascinating in-person
  event as part of our 2022-23 Community Series.\n\nMoral injury (MI) is a 
 relatively new construct which is strongly associated with PTSD. However\,
  understanding of how MI contributes to PTSD\, depression and anxiety symp
 toms is lacking. Of particular concern is MI in civilians compared to mili
 tary service members. This study was initiated as part of the project “M
 oral Injury and Healing of Combatants: Neurocognitive Correlates and Psych
 ological Interventions” funded by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education an
 d Science. Psychosocial support and health services are being provided to 
 military and civilian populations by the Ukrainian Psychotrauma Center (UP
 C) in Lutsk\, Ukraine. This has offered clinicians and researchers the opp
 ortunity to gain an in-depth understanding of MI during military conflict 
 in Ukraine and develop approaches to help mitigate PTSD and MI consequence
 s. Therefore\, this study aims to extend the understanding of MI as often 
 co-occurring but still different from PTSD construct in military and civil
 ian populations during war time.\n\nThis pre-Formal Hall talk will take pl
 ace on the 2nd of February\, 6-7 pm\, in the Wood-Legh Room\, Strathaird. 
 It is free and open to all.\n\nAbout the speaker:\nLarysa Zasiekina is Pro
 fessor of Clinical Psychology at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University 
 and Director of the Ukrainian Psychotrauma Center. She is a leading expert
  in the areas of PTSD\, moral injury\, continuous traumatic stress and cul
 tural aspects of memory of trauma. Her focus is on the psychological inter
 -generational impact of genocide in Ukraine and Eastern Europe\, including
  studies of survivors of the Holocaust and Holodomor (man-made famine in S
 oviet Union targeting ethnic Ukrainians) and their children. Larysa Zasiek
 ina has published extensively on language of trauma in high-impact journal
 s in her field and spearheads international partnerships with scholars of 
 psychotrauma at universities of Canada\, Israel\, Switzerland\, the USA an
 d UK. As Fulbright Scholar (2010-2011)\, (2015-2016) she explored the coll
 ective traumas of Native Americans and African Americans in the USA. Zasie
 kina’s clinical perspective and experience in trauma-focused therapies a
 re central to the current project at the University of Cambridge “Exposu
 re to Continuous Traumatic Stress and Its Consequences among at Risk Adole
 scents and Young Adults in Ukraine”.\n
LOCATION:Lucy Cavendish College\, Wood-Legh Room\, Strathaird
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