L'Expérience de violence dans le secteur de la santé: Le vécu de professionnels dans le Nord de la France

Abstract

Conducting a victimization survey with caregivers, asking what sort of violence they had suffered, allows us to identify the situations in which violence takes place. Describing the forms, frequency and consequences of this violence underlines the importance of inscribing individual experience of violence in working relationship. The analysis of the data collected from 444 caregivers indicates that victimization reports are not only the expression of an personal ordeal but can also characterize caregivers' professional identity and their possibility of influencing social relations within the organization.