Whistleblowers of America Peer Support Mentor Training Manual: Peer Support in overcoming the toxic tactics of whistleblower retaliation

By Jacqueline Garrick

Whistleblowers of America Peer Support Mentor Training Manual is designed to assist whistleblowers overcome the toxic tactics of retaliation and discover their resilience through a peer to peer connection. A primary goal of the book is to provide whistleblowers with a taxonomy for understanding the Toxic Tactics of Whistleblower Retaliation. Ms. Garrick has created a Whistleblower Retaliation Checklist? and describes the elements of retaliation as gaslighting, mobbing, marginalizing, shunning, devaluing, blackballing, double-binding, accusing and physical and emotional violence. She provides an understanding that validates the whistleblower experience by sharing her own and other employees who have experienced retaliation after identifying wrongdoing. Whistleblowers are the unsung heroes who often have protected individuals or the public from waste, fraud and abuse, fiscal mismanagement, medical errors, contamination, espionage, and other illicit activities. As a result of their disclosures, the government has recouped billions or dollars, hospitals have improved care, and faulty products have been recalled, yet the whistleblower has gone on to experience unemployment, discrimination, harassment, bullying, or a hostile work environment. Many whistleblowers recount their financial, legal, social, emotional and physical ruin because of the character assassination and reputation defamation by unscrupulous managers and leaders more interested in covering up the wrongdoing than addressing the whistleblower's disclosure. Whistleblowers spend years and years and hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting legal battles with their employer who defends the wrongdoing/wrongdoer while the whistleblower is on their own and out of pocket. The resilience skills need to restore a whistleblowers' financial, legal, social, emotional and physical health status are also described. The strategic plan outlined in this book for whistleblowing can be done on one's own, but the role of a peer mentor is encouraged. Peer support is an evidence-based technique that has been successful with other populations, such as military veterans, police officers, widows, and firefighters. Although this manual is not designed to replace medical or legal professionals, peers are invaluable. They know what it is like because they have been there too. Some whistleblowers report feeling traumatized by the entire experience so developing a better understanding of retaliation can also help them along a path of recovery. While not the traditional criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), whistleblower retaliation is comparable to other forms of persecution and the "death of the self" can be viewed as the traumatic experience. Retaliation is also associated with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. So, it is important for whistleblowers and their mentors to be able to work with clinical and legal teams to uncover the depth of this traumatization and the tools it will take to make an employee "whole" again. Peers can lessen the pain and suffering that is endured by the whistleblower and be United in Speaking Truth to Power!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980825998
• ISBN13: 9781980825999
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"