Therapeutic Practitioners SIG

Convenor: Evelyn Field 
Co-convenor: Pat Ferris

The major concern for therapeutic practitioners is to establish appropriate diagnoses and treatment for a person who is experiencing bullying at work (as a target, bully or both) or has been injured (often severely) and may have left the workplace for months, years or forever. There is a serious lack of evidence-based diagnoses and treatment which leads to major confusion between stress, trauma and depression. Consequently, many targets are injured first, by bullying, and second, by the substantial lack of professional and community understanding. The aim of the Therapeutic Practitioners SIG is to establish international discussion and further research  to improve diagnostic and treatment models, especially the DSM process, and to improve training for therapists.

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