Organisational Trauma, Workplace Harassment (including sexual harassment, mobbing, and systemic bullying), and toxic corporate investigations represent profound structural sources of psychological injury. Moving beyond treating workplace distress as individual interpersonal friction, contemporary organizational psychology is grounded in Jennifer Freyd’s groundbreaking theory of Institutional Betrayal and Vivian Bender’s Trauma-Informed Organizations. When an employee experiences severe harassment, discrimination, or ethical wrongdoing, the psychological devastation is dramatically multiplied if the institution itself (HR departments, leadership) responds with denial, victim-blaming, cover-ups, or retaliatory termination. The Organisational Trauma, Harassment and Workplace Investigation Psychoeducation Module delivers 8 structured video lessons on DARVO dynamics, trauma-informed investigation protocols, and corporate restorative justice.
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Jennifer Freyd: Institutional Betrayal & DARVO Dynamics
- Institutional Betrayal: Wrongdoings perpetrated by an institution upon which an individual depends for survival, security, and professional identity. The institution gaslights the victim to preserve corporate branding.
- DARVO (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender): A predictable institutional and perpetrator manipulation tactic:
- Deny: “This incident never occurred.”
- Attack: Attacking the credibility, mental stability, or motives of the complainant.
- Reverse Victim & Offender: Painting the perpetrator as the true victim of an unfair “witch-hunt,” isolating the actual victim.
Trauma-Informed Workplace Investigations
Re-traumatizing investigation tactics (aggressive cross-examination by company attorneys) are replaced with objective, trauma-informed principles: establishing psychological safety, providing transparent timelines, preventing retaliatory ostracism, and offering restorative resolution.
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