Materials

• Preventing Harm from Ostracism: All service members can play a critical role in recognizing and addressing ostracism through raising awareness and through deliberate supportive connection with one another. Learn more about preventing harm from ostracism.
• 6 Tips to Combat Ostracism: Ostracism — intentionally excluding or ignoring others — can be a harmful experience. Here are six tips to combat ostracism.

Blogs

• Ostracism and Your Mental Health: What is ostracism? Ostracism is intentionally excluding or ignoring others. It can be overt, such as purposely not inviting a team member to a unit activity, or subtle, such as not valuing everyone’s input in decision-making.
• Recognizing and Countering Ostracism – Ready and Resilient Military Community: Purposely excluding someone is like rejecting them and is a subtle form of bullying, which can have negative psychological effects on both the person being excluded and the person doing the excluding.