Psychiatria pre prax 3/2015

Mobbing – its influence on the health and its opportunities for prevention

The author in this paper analyses mobbing as a negative social phenomenon in the workplace that represents inappropriate communication or behavior of colleagues or superiors to a single person or eventually to a smaller group. She gives attention to the causes, manifestations and negative impacts of mobbing for the victim, organization and society. Long term continues pathological interpersonal relationship in the workplace can become reason of the victim’s health difficulties. Doctors from various parts of medicine come along with solutions of the raised issued but the identification demands inter-discipline cooperation. The author in the end focuses on description of personal characteristics of victims and perpetrators. Moreover she mentions concrete ways of helping the victim of this particular violence and importance of prevention.

Keywords: mobbing, victim, aggressor, violence, communication, prevention.