An Overview of Bystander Intervention  

Behavioral Health Professionals Are Becoming Familiar with Additional Ways to Stop Harm from Occurring.  

Where can professionals find information describing why bystander intervention is so important? 

Behavioral health professionals have the ability to take action in situations causing harm to others.  Realizing the importance of bystander intervention can influence one’s decision when contemplating whether or not something needs to be done to stop a problematic incident that may be happening.  The Basics of Bystander Intervention provides an outline of 

• Bystander Intervention
• The Bystander Effect 
• Five Steps to Reflect Upon Before Deciding to Intervene 
• Five Courses of Action to Take When Intervening 
  
  

By intervening when discrimination, violence, or harassment is occurring, further harm can be prevented, and the world can start to become a safer place.  

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