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Employee Assistance Professionals
EA Industry Spotlight is a roundup of bit-sized articles covering our field. This February, we announce a number of EA industry mergers and expansions, present the Gallup organization's monumental "State of the American Workplace," as well as an article about Chestnut Global Partners' first study of EAPs in China using the Workplace Outcomes Suite. The EA Professional Spotlight focuses on Peizhong Li, an EA pioneer in China. And there's more.
NPR
Aetna, one of the nation's largest insurance companies, says that starting in March it will remove what's been a key barrier for patients seeking medication to treat their opioid addiction. The change will apply to all its private insurance plans, an Aetna spokeswoman confirmed. Aetna is the third major health insurer to announce such a switch in recent months.
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MarketWatch
A growing body of research suggests that young workers are increasingly adding mental health days to their personal days, and young women are particularly at risk.
Millennials report higher rates of depression than any other generation and are now the biggest sector of the workforce, creating new challenges in work culture and mental health treatment. And they're not alone: Recent research shows depression is becoming more prevalent in younger women. Between 2005 and 2014 the number of depressed teens jumped by more than half a million, three-fourths of which were teenage girls according to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics. These mental health struggles are extending themselves into the workplace, with millennial women far more likely than their male counterparts to experience burn out and depression.
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Forbes
As a psychotherapist, I often get an inkling into which local businesses promote good mental health and which ones don't based on who comes into my office. Companies who glorify a workaholic mentality or those who have abusive leadership, for example, often have multiple employees engaged in treatment for mental health problems.
Of course, due to confidentiality rules, employees have no idea their co-workers — sometimes half of their team — are in treatment as well. But psychotherapists see the patterns and the clear link between employee mental health and the workplace.
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Human Resource Executive Online
President Trump's executive orders have inspired many companies to respond in a public way, highlighting an opportunity for employers to tout their benefits programs as differentiators in a crowded market for talent.
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The New York Times
Ruth Brunn finally said yes to marijuana. She is 98.
She pops a green pill filled with cannabis oil into her mouth with a sip of vitamin water. Then Brunn, who has neuropathy, settles back in her wheelchair and waits for the jabbing pain in her shoulders, arms and hands to ebb.
"I don't feel high or stoned," she said. "All I know is I feel better when I take this."
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Management Today
Out at lunch with an ad exec, MT (and MT's host) resisted the urge to quaff a glass or two of wine. "Not the like the old days," our companion lamented. Anyone who's seen Mad Men knows about advertising’s fearsome reputation for drinking on the job. It may be fictional but tales of hardcore boozing in advertising abound – and way beyond the 60s era in which the show was set. "The advertising industry was built on legendary boozy lunches and whether we like it or not, alcohol is part and parcel of our industry," says Neil Hughston, CEO of creative agency Duke. "I wouldn't dream of telling an agency department they couldn't have a drink between the hours of nine and six, in the same way I wouldn't force feed them a kale smoothie every morning so I hit the healthy workplace quota"
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The Boston Globe
Nurses should not have to suffer broken bones and concussions to spur action against workplace violence. Unfortunately, at Arbour-HRI psychiatric hospital in Brookline, it took that level of violence for the federal government to investigate and levy a fine ("OSHA cites Brookline psychiatric hospital," Metro, Feb. 9).
Arbour-HRI failed to protect employees from aggressive patients, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, leading to nurses and mental health workers being punched, hit, scratched, bitten and hit with objects, including a wooden dresser drawer. It does not have to be this way.
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