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Disability Harassment: A New Term for a Long‐Standing Problem
Author(s) -
Holzbauer Jerome J.,
Berven Norman L.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1996.tb01896.x
Subject(s) - harassment , commission , government (linguistics) , term (time) , psychology , political science , social psychology , law , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The authors present definitions of the term harassment from the literature and government sources and propose a definition of disability harassment, Existing literature related to disability harassment is reviewed, including anecdotal accounts. Legal findings are summarized from several cases concerning disability harassment of federal employees, and data on disability harassment complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are provided. The authors suggest that the harmful psychological effects of any form of harassment are similar and a model from the literature on sexual harassment is used as a basis for understanding the effects. Implications for counseling practice and future research are discussed.