Mental health care providers who have a personal lived experience of mental health challenges are valuable employees who may be vulnerable to workplace bullying, which causes harm both to these individuals and to their organizations. We used snowball sampling to survey 40 mental health professionals with lived experience about their history of workplace bullying and whether or not their lived experience was known ("out") or concealed ("closeted"). We found that our sample experienced workplace bullying at much higher rates than published samples from the general population. More than three-quarters of our sample reported having ever experienced bullying and almost half had been bullied in the past year. Furthermore, most of those who had ever experienced bullying reported having been closeted at the time. Further exploratory analyses identified some specific aspects of bullying that might be fruitful areas for future research. We conclude with implications for employee recruitment and retention, vocational rehabilitation, and organizational development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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具有心理健康挑战生活经验的心理健康提供者之间的工作场所欺凌行为。

具有心理健康挑战的个人生活经历的心理健康保健提供者是有价值的员工，他们可能容易受到工作场所的欺凌，这对这些个人及其组织都造成伤害。我们使用滚雪球抽样调查了 40 名具有生活经验的心理健康专业人士，了解他们的工作场所欺凌历史，以及他们的生活经历是否已知（“公开”）或隐藏（“封闭”）。我们发现，我们的样本遭受工作场所欺凌的比率远高于已公布的普通人群样本。超过四分之三的样本报告曾经历过欺凌，近一半在过去一年中曾被欺凌。此外，大多数曾经经历过欺凌的人都报告说当时已经关门了。进一步的探索性分析确定了欺凌的一些具体方面，这些方面可能是未来研究的富有成果的领域。我们总结了对员工招聘和保留、职业康复和组织发展的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。