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Benefits consultants predict a new era for EAPs
Employee Benefit Adviser
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With recent events like Newtown and Superstorm Sandy coupled with health reform and new approaches to crisis management, benefits consultants believe it's time to take a closer look at employee assistance programs.
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Study: Most people in addiction treatment do not receive evidence-based care
The New York Times
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A groundbreaking report published by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that "the vast majority of people in need of addiction treatment do not receive anything that approximates evidence-based care." The report added, "Only a small fraction of individuals receive interventions or treatment consistent with scientific knowledge about what works."
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Mental illness adversely affecting Canada's economic potential
Edmonton Journal
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With its recent announcement of a national standard to help businesses put in place policies that improve employees' psychological health, Canada highlighted what many had long suspected: There are far too many Canadians with mental illness for the business community to ignore them.
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Impending rules will guide equality for mental health
USA Today
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Regulations to be issued on the type of mental health coverage insurers must provide under the 2010 health care law may elevate mental illness to the status it needs, mental health experts say. Mental health parity means that issues such as depression or schizophrenia would be treated for as long as necessary, much as a broken arm is treated until it is healed, rather than having limits on allowed visits per year or insurance policies that don't include mental health at all.
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Could scalp electrodes switch off depression?
ABC News
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Some depression sufferers are getting relief — in the form of tiny, current-emitting scalp electrodes that a new study suggests may offer promise in the treatment of depression. In the study, which was released recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers in Brazil tested a technique known as transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS for short.
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Imaging helps predict anxiety patients who may benefit from CBT
Psychiatric News
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Neuroimaging may prove useful for predicting which patients with social anxiety disorder are likely to gain the most benefit from cognitive-behavioral therapy, suggests a study reported in JAMA Psychiatry. The study was headed by Oliver Doehrmann, Ph.D., of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Study seeks biomarkers for PTSD
The New York Times
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Over the past decade, about half a million veterans have received diagnoses of PTSD or traumatic brain injury. Yet underlying the growing numbers lies a disconcerting question: How many of those diagnoses are definitive? Now, in one of the largest studies of its kind, a team of researchers based out of New York University's medical school have begun a five-year study to find biological signals, known as biomarkers, that could provide reliable, objective evidence of those so-called invisible injuries of war.
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Canadian groups seek law to aid first responders with PTSD
Winnipeg Free Press
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Manitoba, Canada, emergency services unions are calling on the provincial government to adopt a law — much like Alberta's new legislation — that recognizes post-traumatic stress disorder in firefighters, police and peace officers and emergency medical technicians. The law means if a doctor or psychologist diagnoses one of these workers with PTSD, it's "presumed" it's due to what happened in the course of the job, "unless the contrary is proven."
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Senate group votes to boost mental health services
USA Today
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A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill that would expand and improve the availability of mental health services for people with mental illnesses in the hopes of addressing yet another issue tied to the gun-control debate. Seven senators sponsored the bill that would implement new services and accountability standards for community mental health centers.
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On FMLA's 20th anniversary, employers reiterate reservations, advocates urge expansion
Bloomberg BNA
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Twenty years in, employers still have many concerns with the Family and Medical Leave Act, representatives of the Society for Human Resource Management and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said. Meantime, lawmakers, the Labor Department, and work and family advocates marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the federal leave law with the release of a report on the use of FMLA leave and renewed calls for paid leave initiatives.
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Fair Work changes coming in Australia, but business hesitant
Smart Company
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Small business has expressed its hesitation over the Australian government's planned expansion of flexible workplace laws, saying they could threaten the viability of businesses in certain industries and place undue pressure on struggling businesses. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she would deliver more information about changes to flexible work legislation, but reports indicate the changes will extend the ability for workers to request flexible work arrangements.
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Stressed-out Americans want help, but many don't get it
NPR
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More than half of Americans say they get little or no help managing stress from their providers of health care, according to the annual Stress in America survey from the American Psychological Association. The group surveys about 2,000 adults across the country each year. The latest findings square with other studies that find a quarter of Americans don't have access to mental health care.
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Study: Millennials are America's most stressed-out generation
GlobalPost
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Sure, Americans are a stressed-out bunch, but it seems that the millennial generation has it the worst. A new study by the American Psychological Association, "Stress in America: Missing the Health Care Connection," has found that young adults aged 18 to 34 have a higher average rate of stress than the U.S. population — 5.4 out of 10 compared to the nation's 4.9.
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