By Ben L. Teehankee, Business World A lady executive screams and curses as she berates her assistant for doing what she considers incompetent work. Her voice reverberates through the hallways, sending hapless staff scurrying to their cubicles lest they be targeted next. A clique of call center agents takes its usual afternoon smoking break. A [...]

By Elise Stolte, The Edmonton Journal NAIT administrators brought in a former member of the American Secret Service this week to train staff and students on ways to prevent school shootings. The focus is on identifying troubled students while there is still a chance to help them. “(School shootings) are not impulsive; they are thought-out [...]

By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Assaults on therapists, such as the stabbing of a doctor by a psychiatric patient in a Massachusetts General Hospital clinic yesterday, capture widespread attention, but several mental health professionals said such events are rare. Still, they said, doctors can take precautions when treating psychiatric patients. [...]

By Vivian Yee, Yale Daily News As the man accused of killing Annie Le GRD ’13 advances through the justice system, Yale has updated its policy and procedures for preventing workplace violence. In an e-mail to all faculty and staff Monday, Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel announced several changes to the [...]

By Lexie Krell, The Daily of the University of Washington UW senior Stanley Luong has a concealed-pistol permit and carries a handgun. The scar on the forehead of Stanley Luong remains as evidence of the pistol whipping he received during the strong-arm robbery of his residence in the U-District last year. He has also been [...]

from The Medical News A study by Naples investigators published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics reports on what happens in the axis which controls the secretion of cortisol in victims of mobbing. Mobbing (bullying at the workplace) is a severe form of work related psychological distress resulting from repeated hostile communications or [...]