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Although awareness of the serious psychological and sometimes deadly impact of childhood bullying has been a major focus of attention for parents, teachers, and helping professionals in recent years, far less emphasis has been placed on adult bullying that occurs in the workplace. A recent NASW News article on workplace bullying (Pace, 2012) strongly resonated with me from both a personal and a professional vantage point as an important issue that is often swept under the carpet, and thus I am highlighting the phenomenon of workplace bullying and its ramifications in this editorial. Victims of such harassment are often silenced into believing there must be something wrong with them, that they are not good enough or that if they just try harder they will win their supervisors' approval.

As stated in the article (Pace, 2012), workplace bullying can be defined as

repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one of more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators that takes one or more of the following forms: verbal abuse; offensive conduct/behaviors (including nonverbal) which are threatening, humiliating or intimidating; or work interference—sabotage—which prevents work from getting done. (p. 4)

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