Identify Unmet Needs

Individuals who have self-actualized are less likely to become bullies because they have achieved their highest needs. Self-actualization is a state of congruence between the real and the ideal self. Any disequilibrium between the real and the ideal self creates actual or perceived unmet needs, which are often drivers for bully-type behaviors. Therefore, the first step in bullying prevention is to identify the unmet needs of the individual, community, group, organization, or educational setting. 

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Mass Shooters and Psychopathy

Mass Shootings are terrifying and are changing our culture to one of confusion-based fear. As a society, we have not begun to identify why mass shootings occur in our nation. It is easy to place the blame on guns or violent video games, or the moral decay of the family. However, a mass shooter is an individual who has specific motives and intentions to harm others. The justification for hurting others may not be relevant to anyone but the shooter.

Psychopathy is often used to describe mass shooters. However, psychopathy is a spectrum disorder with a wide range of linked conditions that describe various symptoms and traits. Psychopathy is challenging to diagnose and treat because mass shooters are calloused and without the same ability to experience pleasure and recognition from established societal values and reward systems.

Building Tenacious Victims and Bystanders

Dr. Debra Stewart

Why is it so hard to identify the covert bully in the workplace? Especially when there are employees who endure the behavior but become unresponsive and too inhibited to demonstrate helping behaviors or identify the perpetrator. In the presence of a bully, the behavior exhibited by the victim and the bystander goes beyond apathy to fear-based.  According to Dr. Albrecht, there are five fears common to humans.

Fear Types:
(1) fear of extinction,
(2) fear of body mutilation or invasion,
(3) loss of autonomy,
(4) fear of separation, abandonment or rejection,
(5) ego-death or fear of humiliation, shame, or worthlessness.

Since bullying is a system problem, the diffusion of responsibility to report bully behavior becomes rationalized because of the fears embedded in the workplace culture. As an organization, how do you change workplace fear-based behavior to a tenacious cohesive environment that seeks and values a bully-free work environment? The answer is in evaluating the value and reward systems that foster the embedding of the five fear types into your organizational memories and stories.

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Bullying is a Significant Problem Across all Age Spans

Dr. Debra Stewart

Bullying is a significant problem across all age spans. Bully-type behavior can range from the simplest playground skirmishes to sophisticated misinterpretation or dismissal of personal responsibility toward protecting humankind. Callous-unemotional traits primarily consist of a lack of empathy or guilt, which could be caused by a variety of developmental disability, environmental factors such as unmet needs, and other inherited conduct problems. According to the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 diagnostic manual, bullying is a diagnostic criterion for Conduct Disorder for children and teens, and according to research, if left untreated, it may emerge later as psychopathy in adults. Therefore, bullying is a mental health concern that should be taken seriously by healthcare professionals at every stage of development. -Dr. Stewart

An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying

 

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