Archive for the ‘Bullying Tutorials’ Category
Abuse in the medical workplace: Fact vs. myth
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Workplace Abuse in the Medical Workplace: Fact vs. Myth
By Denise Halverson for Utah Nurse
A physician demands that a prescription be filled despite proof that it has been prescribed from faulty information; an intimidated ER nurse doesn’t dare speak up when a life-threatening condition is overlooked; a surgical team stands knowingly, yet silently by as a surgeon makes a life-threatening error ; despite the plea of a mother, nursing staff refuse to challenge the doctor’s written order resulting in the senseless death of a toddler; a senior nurse refuses to assist a junior nurse as a critically-injured patient slips away. What is the common factor in these, and other similar and actual situations? Workplace bullying. In medical environments, personnel often couch it in more benign language: intimidating and disruptive behavior.
Tags: bullying in medical, Halverson, healthcare workplace abuse, Utah
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PTSD Diagnosis, A New Tool – MEG
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Prolonged exposure to unremitting stress damages a person’s health. The research is unequivocal (read the science in our Research Library). Mental health impact begins with anxiety. In worst cases, trauma can result. The diagnosis can be elusive because of the strict definition in the DSM-IV-TR (the diagnostic bible) and the reluctance of clinicians to admit what Heinz Leymann knew back in the late 1980’s — work trauma is real. Now comes a potential new neuroscience tool to complement the diagnostic toolkit — MEG. MEG stands for magnetoencephalography. PTSD can be detected with 97% accuracy using this non-invasive, but still experimental, procedure.
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Tags: Georgopoulos, MEG, neuroscience, PTSD
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Protect your documentation
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
WBI recommends EVDense Digital Diary a unique secure, date stamped, document storage service, that lets bullying targets document incidents of bullying, no more purging of your email account by a conniving bully or complicit employer. The Digital Diary is an excellent service for building an indisputable case whether or not you eventually sue. Visit their site.
Tags: bullying incidents, digital diary, documentation, EVDense, evidence
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Guest audio: A Target reclaims her worth
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Often targets believe the lies told about them and lose themselves in the misery that is bullying. They cannot see a future where they will ever function again. But there are alternatives; there is a future. Listen to one target who tells how connecting with two people helped her. We think you will be inspired.
Tags: resume, self-esteem, self-worth
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Corporations are people who can be very twisted
Friday, February 5th, 2010
You know how the post 9/11 world is supposedly so different from the 9/10/2001 world? Well, America changed after 1/21 based on the US Supreme Court decision granting corporations person status. Here’s some twisted logic: A. Corporations are people. B. Corporations enjoy unchallengeable control over individual, non-unionized workers (now 92.8% of American non-government employees). C. Corporations can act without remorse or accountability — they can be psychopaths.
Tags: psychopath, Robert Hare, The Corporation DVD
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction | 4 Comments »
Life Beyond Workplace Bullying: Guest Blog
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
By Cheryl Ward, BSRT, RN
I was making great money, loved my job and my customers, the retirement plans, and the company car. All this experience yet nothing prepared me for the unexpected environment I entered into at age 48.
Tags: Cheryl Ward, healing, invisible injury, Miller's Red Vest, recovery, service dog
Posted in Bullying Tutorials | 25 Comments »
Podcast 13: So You Wanna Sue …
Friday, December 18th, 2009
New audio tale from a successful plaintiff with painful lessons to share
Download Podcast 13 (in .mp3 format) or Subscribe to the Podcasts.
Tags: court victory, lawsuit, plaintiff, sue
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Podcast | 1 Comment »
The Current, CBC Radio One on Workplace Bullying
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Nov. 30, 2009 Host Anna Maria Tremonti of The Current on CBC Radio One discusses Workplace Bullying with producer Howard Goldenthal. Guests include Dr. Gary Namie, Workplace Bullying Institute, and Ontario MPP Andrea Horwath, sponsor of Bill 29 and future anti-bullying legislation.
Listen to the show segment at the WBI website or the CBC website.
Tags: Anna Maria Tremonti, CBC, Howard Goldenthal, The Current
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Bullying in the News, WBI Legislative Campaign | 2 Comments »
New WBI Coach to join team
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
We proudly announce that a licensed mental health counselor is joining the WBI staff to offer coaching for bullied targets. Prior to this, Dr. Namie, not a clinical psychologist or therapist, was able to offer strategic advice without being able to help on more vexing emotional matters. He will still be available for expert witness and high-level strategizing.
But for individuals overwhelmed by the emotional morass of early-stage bullying or the effects of prolonged exposure to workplace stress, we offer telephone coaching/counseling by Jessi Brown, MS, LMHC, LPC. We plan to offer her telephone services one day per week starting in December. That day has not been determined yet. You can request a 55 min. session with Ms. Brown via e-mail (info at workplacebullying dot org) and we will contact you to select a convenient time.
INTRODUCTORY RATE of $50 (US) per hour.
Tags: coaching, counseling
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Events, Health Care | 1 Comment »
WBI Recommends Robert Sapolsky, Stress Expert
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
WBI loves his popularization of the neuroscience of prolonged stress and its impact on health. Adult targets of bullying at work should appreciate his insights. His book Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping a veritable textbook for those of us not in medical school to which we refer in speeches and WBI University. Purchase his book.
Listen to two of his speeches at our Audio library.
Read one of his articles written for general audiences. [The influence of social hierarchy on primate health. Science, 2005, 308, 648-652.]
Tags: coping with stress, neuroscience, Sapolsky, stress, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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